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Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this t...more

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Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, bu...more

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The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

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There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals......more

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What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccup...more

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There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and...more

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The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs...more

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...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the ‘memory hole’ peculiarly evocative and frightening, for it accorded with my own do...more