BEAUTY IN MUSIC It is a fact of common everyday observation that individuals vary to a significant degree in what music means to them, and in what they get out of it. Pages might be filled with quotations from the best and most cultivated minds in illustration of two extreme responses, as well as the gradations between them, from that of Dr. Johnson, to whom music was the "costliest of rackets," to Carlyle, to whom it represented "a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the infinite and lets us for a moment gaze into that." To Romain Rolland music is a "moony light to eyes wearied of the harsh brilliance of this world's sun," while Charles Lamb sat through opera and oratorio "till, for sheer pain and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded streets, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow, and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention." The Varieties of Musical Experience Principles of Evaluation The Beautiful in Music Music As the Measure of the Arts Pablo Picasso		Home The Nature and Objective of Aesthetics Art and the Artist The Art Work The Art Work in the Making The Creative Mind Art and the Artist Art and the Layman The Experience of Beauty Beauty in Music Painting Poetry