MYSTERIOUS POWER OF MUSIC.
• Most of, us, enjoy music, especially music of and stimulating order. We seldom > thinkyof. music' seriously,; however, so tho views of a famous auttiort expressed recently, will interest;us. Ho-says: ''Music is a mysterious thing. ; It exists in the material; world, yet produces changes in us which cannot be explained'' on a material basis.'. . , *
. '7 t .Indies and stimulates imagination itseif invisible, it can evoke suggestions of form and:colour. . It can dp more, than-this: it can arouse emotions of; all kinds—joy sympathy.'- courage; awe,; grief, ■ love, : fear' it stirs the rccesses of memory; making the life sf the past-more vivid than., that of : tho Mssing- it can' .summon hope and lead ns to beliovc^hat,fortune will ajd us. "It' can -speak 'to us., of death, and alsol of immortality." It can'movc us.to fight, to dance, and to worship God; its influence can be angelij oho moment; . and,;, wicked tho nest-' .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 3
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152MYSTERIOUS POWER OF MUSIC. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 3
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