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The Philosophy of Modernism: In Its Connection With Music (Classic Reprint)
The Philosophy of Modernism In Its Connection With Music - Classic Reprint Author:Cyril Scott PHILOSOPHY OF MODERNISM CHAPTER I CLASSICISM. ROMANTICISM, AM) FUTURISM The prerequisite to immortality in the world of art is the capacity to create something new, or, in other words, the capacity to invent a style. Indeed, let any one but survey the past history of music, poetry and painting, and lie will notice that each great name stands for... more » a literary or musical invention: so that to talk of Keats or Shelley, Beethoven or Wagner, is not to talk of men only, but also of very distinct styles of art. And this capacity to create something new proceeds from a certain divine discontent-divine, because it stimulates evolution, is mild and pleasant, yet just sufficient to prevent the man who possesses it from sinking into that unpro-gressive lassitude so often associated with a good glass of port wine, a widow's cruse of tobacco, and a rather soporific fireside. Such a combination of pleasant circumstances, in fact, together with the man who enjoys them in dreamy contemplation, affo
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPTER tkOZ; I Classicism, Romanticism, and Futurism i; II Originality as a Sense 10; III The Psv'cholocv of Style 17; IV Thk Faculty ok Unlearning 24 V Intellect and Simplicity 50; VI Musical Exi-kessibility 42; VII Form and Evolution 53; VIII Present-day Changes 60; IX The Law of Rlcurkfnce 68; X Criticism and thk Critical Faculty 79 XI Thf Hidden Aspects of Music 97; APPENDICES; 1 The Occult Relationship between Sound; and Colour111; II The Musical Constitution of England 119; III Percy Grainger : The Music anu the Man 125
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