14 THE NATURE OF MUSIC 



in space; the tone-rhythmic embryo or composite 

 of the two unites pure time-form and pure space- 

 form, pure time-relation and pure space-relation; 

 this composite, as we shall demonstrate, is melody, 

 the essence of music, the free spirit of the free tone- 

 realm. Melody makes for pure and perfect har- 

 mony in time and space and thus fulfils the inner 

 law and purpose of its being. In our common feel- 

 ing of melody we shall discover the identity of 

 harmony and equilibrium. As we proceed to trace 

 the evolution of tone-rhythm we shall observe the 

 operation of this universal principle in the domain 

 of the mind. Harmony (equilibrium) is the govern- 

 ing principle, the will of the material and spiritual 

 universe. In the human spirit this principle mani- 

 fests itself in a common emotion, in a common desire 

 for and love of harmony, to gratify which is to be 

 led by, to follow, to obey, the universal will. This 

 spiritual desire and love discovered its voice in 

 melody, rhythm was intoned; the heart thus found 

 a perfect vehicle for all its moods and tenses. Hence 

 music, its genesis, its raison d'etre^ its function, its 

 messenger, its message. Thus music and its forma- 

 tive principle are deeply rooted in what Goethe 

 calls "eternal things" and "the great whole;" 

 its composite rhythmo-harmonic relations are what 

 that poet-evolutionist calls "abiding relations." In 

 the light of the principle of world-harmony I under- 

 stand Schopenhauer's definition of music, " das innere 

 Bildder Welt." 



