Some people think music a primitive art because it has only a few notes and rhythms. But it is only simple on the surface; its substance on the other hand, which makes it possible to interpret this manifest content, has all the infinite complexity that’s suggested in the external forms of other arts and that music conceals. This is the sense in which it is the most sophisticated art of all. (8-9e)
Structure and feeling in music. Feelings accompany our apprehension of a piece of music in the way they accompany the events of our life. (10e)
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Culture and Value. University of Chicago Press, 1980
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