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a collection of the principles and rules according to which sounds
act upon that temperament ? Its possessor feels how they act . If his ears have escaped sophistication by familiarity with bad music , he is a living Philharmonic , and deserves the reverence of the Art in its professors . To delight them , however humble their station , is the best thing the Art can do in proof of its own excellence . The Right Reverend Father in God , his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York ^ an illustrious pairon of difficult and exclusive instrumentalism , beats time in the wrong place to a very familiar chorus of Beethoven ' s . How do the mechanics in the chorus benches use hands and feet when the band sends
forth the multifarious thunder of the most intricate harmonies of Sphor ? Who , that is not a mere mercenary , would not rather play , for the glory and progress of the Art , to a dozen wellorganized Norwich weavers than to the Right Reverend Father in God , his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York . It is no disgrace
to his Grace , simply as a prelate , that he neither feels enough , nor knows enough , to beat time correctly , and that the mechanics beat him out and out ; but the example of such patrons may allay apprehension of any deterioration of the Art by rendering more popular the performance of its noblest productions . The patrons at Norwich occupied the worst places in the hall for hearing , although the most conspicuous , and paid for them the highest prices . This magnanimous act afforded an
opportunity for observing , whether the wealth of the county was differently , or more strongly impressed by the music , than the mediocrity of the city . We traced no symptoms of deeper sensibility ; in fact , down to the lowest class , of those who in any capacity had obtained admission , there was an evident unity of impression , independent of station , the diversities being resolvable into those diversities of individual character and temperament which belong alike to all stations . The poetical enjoyment of music is a far superior pleasure to that of its scientific or technical enjoyment . Cateris paribus , it is realized most largely by those who have the highest degree of
the musical temperament . The more strongly musical sound acts upon the nervous system , ( until its effect is absolutely overpowering , ) the more vivid and varied are the associations which it calls up ; it enters the brain ' s 4 chambers of imagery' like a despoiling conqueror , and makes gorgeous with their treasures the procession or the banquet of its triumph . Susceptibility to
music brings into action all of the poet that there is in a man ' s nature ; and all of the materials of poetry which instruction has accumulated in his mind . Probably the musical is only a branch , disproportionately developed , of the poetical temperament . It may be the same kind of physical sensibility , determined to the ear , ( and , in the painter , determined to the eye , ) which , diffused over the whole system , constitutes the poet , or
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756 Re /? eclio ? is on the Norwich Musical Festival .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/24/
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