The orchestra does not make music; it is only an instrument for
conveying music from one spirit to other spirits. The orchestra
no more makes the music which it conveys than the telegraph wire
makes the message which it conveys. Music is not a volume of
sound; it is an experience which sound transmits from one soul
to another soul. The composer creates in himself the symphony.
He translates this creation into symbolic language upon a sheet
of paper. The orchestra translates this translation into chords.
These chords received through the ear awaken in the hearer an
experience similar to that which was in the soul of the original
composer.--LYMAN ABBOTT, _The Outlook_.
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See SOUL MUSIC.