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Charles Darwin on Music

Charles Darwin on Music
Excerpt below: From "Descent of Man"
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 Dinesh
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Human song is generally admitted to be the basis of origin of instrumental music as neither the enjoyment nor the capacity of producing musical notes are faculties of the least use to man in reference to his daily habits of life, they must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed. They are present, though in a very rude condition, in men of all races, even the most savage; but so different in the taste of the several races, that our music gives no pleasure to savages, and their music is to us in most cases hideous and measuring. Dr. Seemann, in some interesting remarks on this subject, “doubts whether even amongst the nations of Western Europe, intimately connected as they are by close and frequent intercourse, the music of the one is interpreted in the same sense by the others. By traveling eastwards we find that there is certainly a different language of music. Songs and joy and dance-accompanimnet are no longer, as with us, in the major keys, but always in the minor.” Whether or not the half-human progenitors of man possessed, like the singing the capacity of producing, and therefore no doubt of appreciating, musical notes, we know that man possessed these faculties at a very remote period. Mr. Lartet has described two flutes made out of the bones and horns of the reindeer, found in caves together with flint tools and the remains of extinct animals. . . Page 591

Music arouses in us various emotions, but not the more terrible one of horror, fear, rage, etc. it awakens the gentler feelings of tenderness and love, which readily pass into devotion. In the Chinese annals it is said, “Music hath the power of making heaven descend upon earth.” It likewise stirs up in us the sense of triumph and the glorious ardor for war. These powerful and mingled feelings may well give rise to the sense of sublimity. We can concentrate, as Dr. Seemann observes, greater intensity of feeling in a single musical note than in pages of writing.. . . Page 592
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 Percy Schramm
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Really a fine capture. Wish you a nice weekend, Dinesh !
3.1 years ago.

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