 | George J. Donahue - 1927 - 242 pages
...to be typified: I mean musical sounds, as they are exhibited most perfectly in instrumental harmony. There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen;...art, like some game or fashion of the day, without meaning, without reality? We may do so; and then, perhaps, we shall also account the science of theology... | |
 | 1928 - 840 pages
...his Oxford Sermons, has a wonderful passage referring to the creative power of the master musician: "There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen;...fashion of the day, without reality, without meaning? ... Is it possible that that inexhaustible evolution and disposition of notes, so rich yet so simple,... | |
 | Milo Francis McDonald - 1928 - 216 pages
...nature with inexpressible feeling? "What science," writes Newman, "brings so much out of so little? There are seven notes in the scale, make them fourteen, yet what slender outfit for so vast an enterprise!" "Who is there," asks Carlyle, "that in logical words can... | |
 | 1907 - 474 pages
...to be typified; I mean musical sounds, as they are exhibited most perfectly in instrumental harmony. There are seven notes in the scale — make them fourteen...like some game or fashion of the day, without reality and without meaning? We may do so. To many men the very names which the science employs are utterly... | |
 | A. O. J. Cockshut - 1966 - 276 pages
...the uncertain tone of his theological trumpet, or wonder at the oblique march of his wayward genius. There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen;...does some great master in it create his new world! ... Is it possible that that inexhaustible evolution and disposition of notes, so rich yet so simple,... | |
 | Thomas Dubay - 1999 - 372 pages
...unknown wonders: I mean musical sounds, as they are exhibited most perfectly in instrumental harmony. There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen;...does some great master in it create his new world! This "exuberant inventiveness" could not be some trick of art or game or fashion without reality and... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 pages
...fond of grief? VI. ON Music From Newman, University Sermons (quoted in RH Mutton's Cardinal Newman). There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen,...enterprise! What science brings so much out of so little? ... To many men the very names which the science employs are utterly incomprehensible. To speak of... | |
 | 1928 - 832 pages
...his Oxford Sermons, has a wonderful passage referring to the creative power of the master musician: "There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen;...fashion of the day, without reality, without meaning? ... Is it possible that that inexhaustible evolution and disposition of notes, so rich yet so simple,... | |
 | 1899 - 424 pages
...typified — I mean musical sounds, as they are exhibited most perfectly, in instrumental harmony. There are seven notes in the scale ; make them fourteen...of so little ? Out of what poor elements does some master in it create his new world ! Shall we say that all this exuberant inventiveness is a mere ingenuity... | |
 | 1902 - 428 pages
...to be typified ; I mean musical sounds as they are exhibited most perfectly in instrumental harmony. There are seven notes in the scale ; make them fourteen...of so little ? Out of what poor elements does some master create his new world ! Shall we say that all this exuberant inventiveness is a mere ingenuity... | |
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There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen; yet what a slender outfit for so vast an enterprise ! What science brings so much out of so little ? Out of what poor elements does some great master in it create his new world ! Shall we say that... 
