August 5, 1838
Journals (1838-1859)
“Now, as discord is allowable, and even necessarily opposed to concord, why may not noise, or a seeming jargon, be opposed to fixed sounds and harmonical proportion? Some of the discords in modern music, unknown till this century, are what the ear can but just bear, but have a very good effect as to contrast. The severe laws of preparing and resolving discord, may be too much adhered to for great effect; I am convinced that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it.”
The Present State of Music in France and Italy (1771) pp. 152-3
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Source: 1910's, The Art of Noise', 1913, p. 6
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