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They not only reveal to us many secrets of the tone-art, but teach us much about the kinds of things and of thoughts which lived in the minds of the composers.
Music Talks with Children Thomas Tapper
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Friedrich Nietzsche, the laureate of the modern German tone-art, for his inspiration in this gigantic work.
A Book of Burlesques 1918
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The sweeping black folds were as imposing as imperial purple, and the starched guimpe framed a beauty that was grave, stern, almost severe until she smiled, and then you caught your breath, because you had seen what great poets write of, and great painters try to render, and only great musicians by their impalpable, mysterious tone-art can come nearest to conveying -- the earthly beauty that has been purged of all grosser particles of dross in the white fires of the Divine Love.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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