id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21542 Hunt, H. Ernest (Harry Ernest) Spirit and Music .txt text/plain 29242 1433 70 he will so long as, Nature-like, there is life expressing itself. If Music be a means of expression, we must needs ask ourselves what it same reason, that it can no longer express life or spirit. the fact that life itself, and especially Art and Music, can only fulfil Therefore if Music is to express this spirit it must do so by life, is subject to the same explanation: and thus the spirit of Music gives of the spirit of the music, for a measure of inspiration has been touched the composer's soul, and henceforth he plays Music, not notes. time, unless the music so played or sung still bears a living message Thus so far as music becomes the expression of spirit and It is only in the spirit that the real meaning of true music is to be life by which they are animated and inspired."[29] All true music has ./cache/21542.txt ./txt/21542.txt