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The Melody Is Generally What The Piece Is All About.

The Inspired Moment May Sometimes Be Described As A Kind Of Hallucinatory State Of Mind: One Half Of The Personality Emotes And Dictates While The Other Half Listens And Notates. The Half That Listens Has Better Look The Other Way, Had Better Simulate A Half Attention Only, For The Half That Dictates Is Easily Disgruntled And Avenges Itself For Too Close Inspection By Fading Entirely Away.

If One Were Asked To Name One Musician Who Came Closest To Composing Without Human Flaw, I Suppose General Consensus Would Choose Johann Sebastian Bach.

Most People Use Music As A Couch; They Want To Be Pillowed On It, Relaxed And Consoled For The Stress Of Daily Living. But Serious Music Was Never Meant To Be Soporific.

Mozart In His Music Was Probably The Most Reasonable Of The World's Great Composers. It Is The Happy Balance Between Flight And Control, Between Sensibility And Self-discipline, Simplicity And Sophistication Of Style That Is His Particular Province... Mozart Tapped Once Again The Source From Which All Music Flows, Expressing Himself With A Spontaneity And Refinement And Breath-taking Rightness That Has Never Since Been Duplicated.