“Music has a more powerful potential to educate
than any other educational medium,
because harmony and rhythm
of naturally structured music
find their way into the deepest depths of the soul
and unfold her natural beauty and dignity.”
than any other educational medium,
because harmony and rhythm
of naturally structured music
find their way into the deepest depths of the soul
and unfold her natural beauty and dignity.”
Socrates
Based on the same practical cognition Beethoven states:
“Music is
a higher revelation
than all wisdom
and philosophy “
a higher revelation
than all wisdom
and philosophy “
Beethoven
Knowing this high importance and role of music Shakespeare makes the following statement – and downright characterizes with it your university, which, after all, supplied the evidence with the said dissertation:
“The man, who has no music in himself
nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds
is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils:
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
and his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”
nor is not moved with the concord of sweet sounds
is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils:
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
and his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.”
Shakespeare
Here, by the way, Shakespeare does not speak – as the uneducated would like to come up with – of any old music, but very specifically and precisely of music structured according to the harmony laws of the microcosm of music, or the harmony laws of Nature, or the harmony laws of the Creator: Shakespeare speaks of the “concord of sweet sound” – a case, which, provable by musicology, only occurs in harmonically structured music.
