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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: the text serves to concentrate and justify. When precision and
definiteness of direction are thus added to the powerful physical
means of expression which we get in the combination of chorus,
orchestra, and organ, we have attained the greatest sureness as
well as the greatest wealth of musical expressiveness. And thus
we may see the reasonableness of Dommer's opinion that in order
to restrain instrumental music from ruining itself by meaningless
extravagance, it is desirable that there should be a renaissance
of vocal music, such as it was in the golden age of Palestrina
and Orlando Lasso.
We are not inclined to deny that in structural beauty--in the
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