“Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music.”
John Buchan book Huntingtower
Prologue
Huntingtower (1922)
“Our first appreciation of music comes through the sounds of the mother, especially her voice and her lullaby. Our earliest musical expression, of which speech is a part, is in a sense a duet with her. And later in life we should still be able to discern the voice of love in the music.”
Source: The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), p. 25
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