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bhrgunatha · 3266 days ago · link · · parent · post: Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls – Brain Pickings
- In a different mode, or another plane of being, music is the equivalent of some of man’s most significant and most inexpressible experiences. By mysterious analogy it evokes in the mind of the listener, sometimes the phantom of these experiences, sometimes even the experiences themselves in their full force of life — it is a question of intensity; the phantom is dim, the reality, near and burning. Music may call up either; it is chance or providence which decides. The intermittences of the heart are subject to no known law.
This guy gets it. If anything I think he understates it but as he says it's really, truly inexpressible.
I immediately re-read the article listening to Beethoven's Missa Solemnis - Benedictus