“Another favorite means of arresting the attention was by modulation; not used in a constructive in different keys, but to furnish the ear with a purely sensuous delight, corresponding to that which the eye derives from the kaleidoscopic colors of a sunset.”

—  Walter Raymond Spalding

Pages 164–165 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA164.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), The Romantic Composers. Schubert and Weber (Ch. XII)

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American music pedagogue and author 1865–1962

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