Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Timothy L Mccoul
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Timothy L Mccoul
Terms:
Coda - Closing section of a movement.
Ricercar - Elaborate polyphonic composition of the Boroque and Renaissance periods.
Verismo - A form of Italian opera beginning at the end of the 19th
century. The setting is contemporary to the composer's own time, and the
characters are modeled after every day life.
Pastoral - A composition whose style is simple and idyllic; suggestive of rural scenes.
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