Now, what is music? This question occupied me for hours before I fell asleep last night. Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike each of the things it mediates, spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without space.
We do not know what music is.
Heinrich Heine, "Letters on the French Stage" --- taken from the book by John Dizikes, "Opera in America: A Cultural History"
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