Richard D. Russell » Arnold Schoenberg http://rdrussell.com Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:42:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Schoenberg the sentimentalist? http://rdrussell.com/schoenberg-the-sentimentalist http://rdrussell.com/schoenberg-the-sentimentalist#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:04:28 +0000 http://rdrussell.wordpress.com/?p=141 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 […]

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]]> 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…

Arnold Schoenberg

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