Story of music affording knowledge of man's inner life. Mythology
and legendary lore. Emerson's dualism. Music a mirror. Ruskin and
art. Beethoven's lofty revelation. The real thing of Schopenhauer.
Views of Carlyle, Wagner and Mazzini. Raw materials. Craving for
sympathy in artistic type. Evolution of tone-language. French writer
of 1835. Prince of Waldthurn, in 1690. Spencer's theory. Controversy
and answer. Music of primeval man and early civilizations. The
Vedas. Hebrew scriptures. Basis of scientific laws. Church ritual.
Folk-music. Influence of crusades. Modern music architect of its own
fortunes. Present musical vocabulary and literature. Counsel of
Pythagoras. What Plato taught. Euripides on song. Auerbach. Martin
Luther. Napoleon Bonaparte. Bain and Dr. Marx. Shakespeare, in
Merchant of Venice. Wagner's unspoiled humanity. Tolstoi in art.