minor-music

Updated: May 6, 2025

Moving on slowly further toward the altar, he was suddenly seized by an overpowering impression, a memory that rushed upon him with a sort of shock, albeit it was only the memory of a tune! a wild melody, haunting and passionate, rang in his eras, the melody that Sarasate, the Orpheus of Spain, had evoked from the heart of his speaking violin, the sobbing love-lament of the "Zigeunerweisen" the weird minor-music that had so forcibly suggested What?

Marie Corelli - Ardath