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[T]he rhythm of music, akin to the human heart-beat and to the ceaseless change and motion, which is the basic fact in all life, apeals at once to our own physical vitality.

— Walter Raymond Spalding Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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The Introductory chords dissolve the dream which the music has evoked, and we are back once more in the world of reality.

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Thus a very etherial, magical quality of tone is produced, especially in the upper ranges of the instrument.

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Beginning with Beethoven, however, composers began to exhibit great freedom in the application of Sonata-Form.

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Music is of such power and glory that we should be ready to devote to its study as much time as to a foreign language.

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