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Beethoven tuui defined music u the “link which connects the spiritusil with (he sensuous life.’* In addition to its existence as sound, music is a means of communication by which something of the processes of a man's inner life is revealed to his fellow men.
Music lovers often ask if there are any special qualities, apart from the natural faculties of keenness and the power of attention yahich nature may have given them, that they should cultivate. Apart from the actual ability to read music, the greatest technical need of the music lover is to develop his power of memory. Music is unlike any other art in that it goes past like a flash, and every particular piece may not be immediately available again. One may stand before a piece of sculpture and take one’s time enjoying its details. Even if i piece of music be played over many times, one may not remember all its fine detail; and from one hearing the less experienced listener, however eagerly he may desire to take it in, may well come away baffled. Patience and time are needed, and the cultivation of the memory— not only for tunes, bu£ for whatl the composer does with them—for the structural logic of a music work. A symphonic movement may last a quarter of an hour or more. It is obvious that, only the impatient and thoughtless listener would expect to understand all that such a work had to tell him even after two or three hearings. The best resources of all, un
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