Aesthetics of Musical Art; Or, the Beautiful in Music
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The prime free reason for the rhythmical motion of tone is consequently con- tained in the inner life; from it the excitement proceeds; it determines the commencement, the change, and the expiration of the motion. The form of the phenomenon and of the manifestation is throughout of a temporal nature, and is a combination in which the subsequent is always dependent upon the antecedent, the present determined by the past. At the same time, however, both an alternation of activity and varying degr...ees of power are requisite, for if the former be wanting, a monotonous rest results, which may be compared with death, and progression is only possible by renewed excitement. An equal motion, like that of a pendulum, allows, as already observed, only a coerced life to be supposed, and is therefore only to be observed in the mechanical ; it offers regularity, but no rhythm. When therefore some assumed, in respect of this, a Causality, OF THE MUSIC OF NATURE IN GENERAL. 4 1 Others considered the one effect to be produced by the other, it remained unexplained how this connection could arise from the effects themselves.
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