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god and music

by john harrington edwards

Originally published in 1904. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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...songs are rightly enough so called by analogy, though they have little of the rational and none of the spiritual character of human song. They early filled the air with de- licious foretokenings of true melody, suggesting, provoking, and refining the attempts of primitive man at vocal expression of mood and feeling. The cries of beasts, the songs of birds, insect chantings, the diapason of wind and wave, and more mechanical sounds, all did their part in evoking and training the musical faculty. More perfect notes, perhaps, are uttered by feathered throats than by human voice or instrument, but the euphonious tones of bird and beast are not " music. " They show a certain range of sympathetic emotion, yet are re- sultant rather than purposed and free, reactive not creative. Similar conditions educe similar tones among the same species from age to age. Barn- yard fowls have twenty or more notes substantially identical with those of chanticleers who crowed countless generations ago. Birds...

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