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\n Appreciation of Music <\/font><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n On Music <\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n Written words are pale and lifeless things when one has to express the feelings raised by superb music and seem hardly
\nto mean anything ―not being able to convey what is beyond word and mere mental form
\n―that is, at least, what I have felt
\nand why I always find it a little difficult to write anything about music. <\/p>\n

\n 20 March 1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n Musical Excellence and General Culture
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\n I have not seen the remarks in question. I don’t suppose all-round general culture has much to do with excelling in music. Music
\nis a gift independent of any such thing and it can hardly be said that, given a musical gift in two people, the one with an all-round
\nculture would go farther than the other in musical excellence. That would not be true in any of the arts. But something else
\nwas meant, perhaps, ―that there is a certain turn or element in the excellence which an all-round culture makes possible? It is
\nonly in that sense that it could be true. Shakespeare’s poetry for instance is that of a man with a vivid and many-sided response to
\nlife; it gives the impression of a multifarious knowledge of things but it was a knowledge picked up from life as he went; Milton’s
\ngets a certain colour from his studies and learning; in neither case is the genius or the excellence of the poetry due to culture,
\nbut there is a certain turn or colouring in Milton which would have not been there otherwise and is not there in Shakespeare.
\nIt does not give any superiority in poetic excellence to one over the other. <\/p>\n

\n 12 November 1936  
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