I’m reading Howard Gardner’s influential book on multiple intelligences, Frames of Mind. Gardner adds this quote from Arnold Schoenberg, “hardly known for his sentimentality”:
Music is a succession of tones and tone combinations so organized as to have an agreeable impression on the ear and its impression on the intelligence is comprehensible…These impressions have the power to influence occult parts of our soul and our our sentimental spheres…
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