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Symmetrical development. Well-rounded musician. Well-balanced
individual. Profits proportionate to investment. Living force. What
Goethe said. Rich harvest. Aristotle on command over mind. Music
study many-sided. Madox-Brown on art. Mabie on beauty. Practical
forces in shaping character, purifying taste and elevating
standards. Master-works. Human voice as music teacher. Scientific
methods of study. Both art and science. Mental discipline. Stephen
A. Emory. Huxley on education.


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College professors on criticism and interpretation. External and
technical forms. Distrusting impressions. Trampling on God-given
intuitions. Throb and thrill of great art. Insight requisite for
interpretation. Living with masterpieces. Three souls of Browning.
Dr. Corson. Every faculty alive. Vital knowledge. Musical
imagination. Technical proficiency. Head, hand and physical forces.
In service of lofty ideal. Musical art work. Theme. Unfolding.
Climax. Labor of composition. Mind of genius. Elementary laws. Tonal
language. Karl Formes and operatic aspirant. Motto of Leschetitzky.
Marks of expression. Adolph Kullak. Hans von Bülow. Pulse of music.
Memory. Ruskin's fatal faults.


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