8 THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



not separable from rhythm. All relations of tones 

 are tone-rhythmic relations. All forms of tones are 

 tone-rhythmic forms. Music's specific original forms 

 of consonance and dissonance could not arise apart 

 from rhythm. These original forms lie at once at the 

 foundation of music and of common music-feeling. 

 In our common feeling of music itself, as just defined, 

 let us seek to discover the true nature and funda- 

 mental principles of music. 



4. Music-Feeling, the Source and Fountain of Music 



Where did and does this Union of Elements take 

 place .? Within the organism, within us, in feeling. 

 Hence, music-feeling, the source and fountain of 

 music. The harmonic forms of tone specific to music 

 had their genesis in feeling and are the direct products 

 of causes operating in feeling. The voice of music 

 is an inner voice, a spiritual voice. Thus music 

 dwells within, proceeds from within, is understood 

 within. The germ or raw material of musical sound 

 entered into feeling from without. But until that germ 

 had been planted and had taken firm root in feeling 

 it could not develop and blossom into the perfect 

 tone or consonance upon the genesis of which de- 

 pended the genesis of music. Feeling alone could, 

 did and does transmute the raw material of external 

 physical sound into the perfect harmonic form of 

 tone with which music began. Why ? Because the 

 causes of this transmutation are psychical or spiritual 

 causes which exist nowhere outside of feeling, that is, 

 outside of the mind. These causes explain why it is 

 that every first crude effort to intone rhythm is an 



