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Schumann claimed that his object in writing music was to influence the imagination of the listeners that they could go on dreaming for themselves.

— 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.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

One of the peculiar characteristics of music is that it is both the most natural and least artificial of the arts, and as well the most complicated and subtle.

Music: An Art and a Language (1920)

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