| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: living--do not sustain it. It is Beanquier, we think, who
suggests that instrumental music should rank above vocal, because
it is "pure music," bereft of the fictitious aids of language and
of the emotional associations which are grouped about the
peculiar timbre of the human voice.[64] At first the suggestion
seems plausible; but on analogous grounds we might set the piano
above the orchestra, because the piano gives us pure harmony and
counterpoint, without the adventitious aid of variety in timbre.
And it is indeed true that, for some such reason as this,
musicians delight in piano-sonatas, which are above all things
tedious and unintelligible to the mind untrained in music.
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde: on each side of the door which is (C.), look out into the passage;
the stage is rather dark.
FIRST SOLDIER
[throws dice]
Sixes again! good Pietro.
SECOND SOLDIER
I' faith, lieutenant, I will play with thee no more. I will lose
everything.
THIRD SOLDIER
Except thy wits; thou art safe there!
SECOND SOLDIER
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
"What do you say?" she repeated, looking at him and smiling.
"Why, Blix!" he exclaimed in amazement, "what do you mean?"
"Just what I say. I want you to play cards with me."
"I'll not to do it," he declared, almost coldly.
"Listen to me, Condy," answered Blix; and for quite five minutes,
while he interrupted and protested and pshawed and argued, she
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