A Dicroxany of Moora Music ano Mestcians. 3. MIN. Dent and. Sena.
nets We live in a changing world, in 4 world where nothing is stable and we ourselves no more constant than the things surrounding us, than the clouds or the constellations or the face of the sea, And the arts, those human emanations through which we strive to extend our empire over the limitless fields of ide beauty, to erystallise the infinite, are as' much subject to change as we are. For each generation the world has to be wrought anew. less that is so, unless each zener: tion, like Ulysses, yearns in. desi to pass the utmost bounds of human thought or expression, it can add no fresh conquests to the roll of human achievement. This. Heracleitan flux in our time has been more pronounced in music than in any of the arts except, perhaps, painting. Indeed, modern music has moved away so far from the safe anchorages of Yomanticism in which the ship of "harmonical sound" lay during 00d part of the last century that many think it has lost its bearings altogether, and is driving helplessly before the waves of disordered tainly is true that music has met with stormy weather. And the course we are making sometimes seems hazardous, But every art must navigate dangerously. It moves through uncharted seas and passes along unlit coasts. All we can do is to remember that the ship has often been wrecked in the past and yet still is able to sail into new waters, that in other words the golden rule is that there!
no golden rule.
'In part writing there are forbidden progressions... the only acceptable definition of' resolution' is that of the behaviour of a chord" being justified either ssthetically, emotionally, or logical ly. There is no fundamental difference between a concord and -a discord; it is merely a difference of degree." Finality is only a relative term; a piece may end on any combination of notes." This. quotation from the Jearned and illuminating, article on "Harmony" in "A Diet ary of Modern Music and Musi shows that our doctors of music have realized that they cannot be bound by rules. Those who take the trouble to read the eight or nine. pages devoted to this subject will re-
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