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Updated: May 15, 2025
But in order to think music it is necessary to know it in fact, music-thinking is impossible without it. As it is no trouble to learn the scale, all of you should get it fixed in the mind quickly and securely. It is now possible for you to hear the scale without singing its tones aloud. Listen and see if that is not so! Now think of the melodies you know, the songs you sing, the pieces you play.
Here, I can tell you that Beethoven wrote many of his greatest works when he was so deaf that he could not hear the music he made. Hence, he must have been able to write it out of his thought just as he wanted it to sound. When you understand these steps and ways you will then know about the beginning of music-thinking. Let us inquire in this Talk what the piano has to do in our music-thinking.
Thomas Carlyle, a Scotch author of this century, spoke very truly when he said: "Great men are profitable company; we cannot look upon a great man without gaining something by him." "You must feel the mountains above you while you work upon your little garden." Phillips Brooks. Somewhere else we shall have some definite lessons in music-thinking.
"The gods for labor sell us all good things." Epicharmus. Perhaps you have some doubt as to exactly what is meant by music-thinking. Being somewhat acquainted with composers and with music, the thought may here come to you that all the music we hear in the world must have been made by somebody by many somebodies, in fact.
We now know what music-thinking is. Also, we see why the young musician needs to learn to think music. Really, he is not a musician until he can think correctly in tone. And further than this, when we have some understanding of music-thought we not only think about what we play and hear, but we begin to inquire what story it tells and what meaning it should convey.
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