“It speaks to our feelings and imaginations, as it were by suggestion; reaching for this very reason depths of our being quite beyond the power of mere words.”

—  Walter Raymond Spalding

On instrumental music, page 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=pQARAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA2.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preliminary Considerations (Ch. I)

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American music pedagogue and author 1865–1962

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