Spirit and Music

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music
Cover of the book Spirit and Music by H. Ernest Hunt, B&R Samizdat Express
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Author: H. Ernest Hunt ISBN: 9781455301058
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint: Language: English
Author: H. Ernest Hunt
ISBN: 9781455301058
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Publication: December 15, 2009
Imprint:
Language: English
"Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. The object of these pages will be to show how closely Music, and indeed Art in general, has woven itself into the pattern of our lives, and how intimately it may influence and fashion the design. The structural basis of Music is vibration. Sound comes to us in the guise of air-waves, which impinge upon the drum of the ear. Thenerve-impulse thus aroused is conveyed to the brain, and there translated into sound. Strictly speaking there is thus no sound until the brain translates the message, while if the machinery of the ear be too dull to answer to the vibration the sound simply does not exist for us. Beyond doubt the world is full of sounds that we cannot hear and of sights that we never see, for of the whole range of vibration our senses permit us to garner but the veriest fragment--a few notes here of sound, and a brief range there of sight, out of the whole vast scale of vibrant Nature."
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"Music is a part of life. It is not merely an accomplishment or a hobby, nor yet a means of relaxation from the strenuous business of earning a living. It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. The object of these pages will be to show how closely Music, and indeed Art in general, has woven itself into the pattern of our lives, and how intimately it may influence and fashion the design. The structural basis of Music is vibration. Sound comes to us in the guise of air-waves, which impinge upon the drum of the ear. Thenerve-impulse thus aroused is conveyed to the brain, and there translated into sound. Strictly speaking there is thus no sound until the brain translates the message, while if the machinery of the ear be too dull to answer to the vibration the sound simply does not exist for us. Beyond doubt the world is full of sounds that we cannot hear and of sights that we never see, for of the whole range of vibration our senses permit us to garner but the veriest fragment--a few notes here of sound, and a brief range there of sight, out of the whole vast scale of vibrant Nature."

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