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The heart of music; the story of the violin, 1906
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1Dream Music
3tones, representing the independent things,—heaven, sun, and man,—and half tones, typifying the dependent things,—earth, moon, and woman. One note of their scale was named "The Emperor," one "The Prime Minister," one "Loyal Subjects," one "Affairs of State," one "The Mirror of the World." They called the whole "The World Music" and believed that the holy bird Fung-Hoang invented it, creating the whole tones himself, while his mate made the half tones.
5They were "the only people," says Naumann, "who, thousands of years ago, possessed a system of octaves, a circle of fifths, and a normal tone. With this knowledge, however, their eighty-four scales, each of which has a special philosophical significance, appear all the more incomprehensible to us."
7The eighty-four keys seem to argue an extraordinary sensibility of ear in any case; for our carefully cultivated musical perceptions would be incapable of noting such subtle gradations of pitch.
9There are two theories as to the next era in the destiny of the Heart of Music. That of Fétis and other illustrious authorities is that the violin was born in the Orient,—in India, in point of fact,—and thus carried out into the Occidental world by slow and also casual degrees, through the
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