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• An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely…
• The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so…
• Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
• So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from…
• On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on…
• Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks…

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