 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1854 - 474 oldal
...and what is often called composition, as the symmetry and arrangement of parts according to artficial rules, there is an abyss. True composition is nothing...the simplest melody, our accustomed sentiments, our favourite affections. In this respect music is an art without a rival : — however it is not the first... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1887 - 192 oldal
...(ROUND.) 1— lt ± John-ny, John-ny, What! what ! So we keep singing, and so we keep calling him. ALL tme arts are expressive, but they are diversely so. Take...affections. In this respect music is an art without a rival, tho' not the first of arts. — V. Cousin. LOVING VOICES. CHAELES W. GLOVER. 1. Lov-ing voi-ces sweet... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 oldal
...spiritual life. From Rousseau to Cousin is a long step. " The peculiar power of music," says Cousin, " is to open to the imagination a limitless career, to lend itself with astonishing faculty to all our moods. ... It awakens more than other arts the sentiment of the infinite." Here... | |
 | 1897 - 838 oldal
...they fasten mightily." A modern observer says : "Music can manage the whole man." Cousin tells us that "The peculiar power of music is to open to the imagination...limitless career, to lend itself, with astonishing faculty, to all our moods." He further says: "It awakens more than other arts the sentiment of the... | |
 | 1900 - 470 oldal
...between a sound and the soul a marveiloas relation. It seems as though the soul were an echo in whieh the sound takes a new power. Extraordinary things...without a rival; however, it is not the first of arts. . . . Between sculpture and music, those two opposite extremes, is painting, nearly as precise as the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1903 - 454 oldal
...single sentiment that it should express. It is useless to remark, that between composition thus denned, and what is often called composition, as the symmetry...without a rival; however, it is not the first of arts. . . . Between sculpture and music, those two opposite extremes, is painting, nearly as precise as the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 oldal
...determined the nature of the unity of which we would apeak. True unity is unity of expression, and variety is made only to spread over the entire work the idea...without a rival; however, it is not the first of arts. . . . Between sculpture and music, those two opposite extremes, is painting, nearly as precise as the... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 520 oldal
...single sentiment that it should express. It ia useless to remark, that between composition thus denned, and what is often called composition, as the symmetry...without a rival; however, it is not the first of arts. . . . Between sculpture and music, those two opposite extremes, is painting, nearly as precise as the... | |
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... rules, there is an abyss. True composition is nothing else than the most powerful means of expression. Expression not only furnishes the general rules of art, it also gives the principle that allows of their classification. In fact, every classification... 