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Updated: May 20, 2025
Every moment of progress in a beautiful melody is hailed like an instinctive action performed for the first time. Rhythm is the ideal satisfaction of attention in general with all its bodily concomitants and expressions. Tone-sequence is the satisfaction of attention directed to auditory demands. But the form-quality of rhythm, the form-quality of tonality, is an all but subconscious possession.
The motor tension, the "set" becomes felt the moment there is objective interference just as we feel the rhythm of our going downstairs only when we fail to get the sensation we expect. <1> M. Lussy, Traite de l'Expression Musicale, Paris, 1874, p. 7. <2> Gestaltsqualitat, literally form-quality.
And we might, indeed, hope to "express the Idea to sense" if we could find for it a form-quality, or subjectively, in the phrase of Kant, a form of reflection. What is the form of reflection for the Absolute, the Idea? It would appear to be a combination of Unity and Totality self-completeness.
It has been said that the feeling of tonality is a motor image or "form-quality" and that the image of the tonic persists throughout every sequence of tones in a melody. Now these are not only felt as having a certain relation to the tonic; that relation is an active one.
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