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Excerpt from Svvm Cviqve: Essays in Music As for program-music, it is fettered by poetic or philosophic thought quite as much as so-called absolute music is by symmetric formulas. The true line Of advance for modern music does not lie in adherence to one or the other of these as the highest aim, but in something else beyond and above the other two the absolute free moulding of the form of a composition from the individual inherent life of its constituent ideas. These can set in vibration our human moods, and marvelously parallel our soul states, not describing them, but directly uttering them. Busoni dwells on the necessary loss Of the musical message through the mechanism of notation, and the need of the inter preter's altering the crystallized forms of the printed page into vital personal utterance. TO the writer, this at once brings to mind the appallingly ugly and inartistic sequences of sound drawn by skilled musicians from the printed pages of plainsong books, because of their almost universal unfamiliarity with the living tradition Of that surpassingly pure and beautiful body of melody. Passing over a fascinating analysis of the subject of tran scription, we come to a pregnant discussion of the creative function, which, says our author, consists in making laws, not in follow ing laws ready-made. This does not mean a willful and mean ingless breaking of rules, but the true creator strives after perfection only, and through bringing this into harmony with his own individuality, a new law arises without premeditation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.