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«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adds, anticipate, anticipates, composer, Delicious, divining, exercises, gymnastic, in point of fact, listener, more or less, musical, occurs, sensation, skillful, stable, The Listener, The Void, thrust, torn, void, withholds
«Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
architectonic, composed, musical, prose, textile, work on, woven
«Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Prose
| Keywords:
lyrical, Movements, musical, poetic, prose, rhyme, rhythm, rhythm and, staccato, supple, The Miracle
«We have had so much of the same background, our musical background and where we came from, and what we listened to in common and all those years we played together, somehow it s made a very deep groove in our memories, and it doesn't t take much to l»
«The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
compositions, mastering, musical, musicals, paintings, prerequisite, sculptures, tragedies
«The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.»
«We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.»
«There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.»
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