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... song again . We said above that our test for the music of a song was its congruence with the " feeling " of the words ; that is to say , whether it expresses in its own way the meanings of the text . This relationship involves something ...
... song again . We said above that our test for the music of a song was its congruence with the " feeling " of the words ; that is to say , whether it expresses in its own way the meanings of the text . This relationship involves something ...
Page 105
... song , and meditation as tendencies rather than formal divisions . For these three tendencies operate constantly in literary art and , most im- portant of all , they often do so concurrently . They interfuse ; they are co - present . It ...
... song , and meditation as tendencies rather than formal divisions . For these three tendencies operate constantly in literary art and , most im- portant of all , they often do so concurrently . They interfuse ; they are co - present . It ...
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... song displaces words , song here being dramatic in character . For opera is the still higher heightening of the emotional and passionate aspects of dramatic meaning ; its structure depends on the greatest intensification of a very few ...
... song displaces words , song here being dramatic in character . For opera is the still higher heightening of the emotional and passionate aspects of dramatic meaning ; its structure depends on the greatest intensification of a very few ...
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