Paul Henry Lang Quotes

What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept Of Drama And, Strictly Speaking, Stands Outside The World Of Drama. Opera Does Not Permit Men To Appear In Nakedly Logical Acts, For The Music Dissolves Feelings And Thoughts Into Melodies And Rhythms, Harmonies And Counterpoints, Which In Themselves Have No Conceptual Meaning. Thus In Opera Objective Situations May Very Well Become Entirely Subjective Expressions. Because Of Its Paradoxical Nature Opera Is Capable Of Paradoxical Effects; It Can Express Purely Sensuously The Most Profound Abstractions, And The Musical Drama, Exerting A Mass Effect Far More Than Does The Spoken Drama, Is Much More Primitive As Drama Than The Spoken Theatre; It Must Render Conflict And Character In Immediate Symbols.

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

Paul Henry Lang Quotes: What The Music Offers In A Good Opera Is Something That Comes From A Region That Precedes The Concrete Concept

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