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" The foregoing facts sufficiently prove that what we regard as the distinctive traits of song, are simply the traits of emotional speech intensified and systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal... "
Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions - Page 224
by Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 446 pages
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Essays--scientific, Political and Speculative

Herbert Spencer - 1858 - 466 pages
...systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of...are much more nearly allied to ordinary speech than BB 2 are the songs of civilized races. Joining with this the fact that there are still extant among...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 43

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion. MUSIC THE LANGUAGE OF PASSION. As far as it goes, the scanty evidence furnished by history confirms...
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Bible music, variations on musical themes from Scripture

Francis Jacox - 1871 - 352 pages
...origin and function of music, the same philosophic writer takes note of the fact that the dance chants of savage tribes are very monotonous, and in virtue...ordinary speech than are the songs of civilized races (from which, and cognate facts, he infers the original divergence of vocal music from emotional speech...
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Bible Music: Being Variations, in Many Keys, on Musical Themes from Scripture

Francis Jacox - 1872 - 348 pages
...origin and function of music, the same philosophic writer takes note of the fact that the dance chants of savage tribes are very monotonous, and in virtue...ordinary speech than 'are the songs of civilized races (from which, and cognate facts, he infers the original divergence of vocal music from emotional speech...
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Essays, Scientific, Political, and Speculative, Volume 2

Herbert Spencer - 1891 - 504 pages
...systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of...very monotonous ; and in virtue of their monotony are more nearly allied to ordinary speech than are the songs of civilized races. Joining with this the...
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Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science ..., Volumes 21-22

1902 - 796 pages
...systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion." Herbert Spencer's theory is excellent as far as it goes, but incomplete, and of this the author was...
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The Study of the History of Music: With an Annotated Guide to Music Literature

Edward Dickinson - 1905 - 438 pages
...show that " song employs and exaggerates the natural language of the emotions " ; that " vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion." This theory, known as " the speech theory," has been effectively combated by Wallaschek, Primitive...
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The Study of the History of Music

Edward Dickinson - 1908 - 438 pages
...show that " song employs and exaggerates the natural language of the emotions "; that " vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion." This theory, known as " the speech theory," has been effectively combated by Wallaschek, Primitive...
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The Study of the History of Music: With an Annotated Guide to Music Literature

Edward Dickinson - 1908 - 454 pages
...show that " song employs and exaggerates the natural language of the emotions " ; that " vocal music, and by consequence all music, is an idealization of the natural language of passion." This theory, known as " the speech theory," has been effectiyely combated by Wallaschek, Primitive...
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Essays

Herbert Spencer - 1910 - 470 pages
...systematized. In respect of its general characteristics, ] we think it has been made clear that vocal music, and by \ ' consequence all music, is an idealization...very monotonous; and in virtue of their monotony are more nearly allied to ordinary speech than are the songs of civilized races. Joining with this the...
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