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The Development, beginning in measure 132, is a striking example of how difficult it was—even for an exponent of freedom in musical expression like Schumann—to break loose from the shackles of arbitrary form.

— 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.

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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.

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