Excerpt from Where Speech Ends: A Music Maker's Romance But silence alone would not have healed and restored his spirit. It needed something more than the absence of harsh and brutal and meaningless noise to satisfy him; it needed the presence of melody and harmony: tones meas ured, ordered and restrained; varied and blended not by chance, but by feeling and reason; sound expressive of the secret life and the rhythmical emotion of the human heart. And this he found owing all around him, entering deeply into him, filling ...
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Excerpt from Where Speech Ends: A Music Maker's Romance But silence alone would not have healed and restored his spirit. It needed something more than the absence of harsh and brutal and meaningless noise to satisfy him; it needed the presence of melody and harmony: tones meas ured, ordered and restrained; varied and blended not by chance, but by feeling and reason; sound expressive of the secret life and the rhythmical emotion of the human heart. And this he found owing all around him, entering deeply into him, filling all the parch ed and empty channels of his being, as he lis tened to Beethoven's great Symphony in C Minor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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