Affective Origins Quotes by Jean-Philippe Rameau

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• We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.
• Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
• Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot…
• Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
• Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.
• I try to conceal art with art.
• Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
• In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
• When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

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