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but music. The subject of music or the music-idea 

 is always melody, the substance and form of music 

 is always tone-rhythm, therefore in music the subject 

 and the substance are not only always united, but 

 neither exists independently of the other, the two 

 cannot be sundered. Great and greatest music re- 

 quires no fuller titles than Melody in A, Sonata in B, 

 Symphony in C. This perfect union and insepara- 

 bility of subject, substance and form in the music-idea 

 or melody which directly presents itself and which 

 cannot present something not itself, at once points 

 out the originality of music, its unique position as an 

 art and distinguishes music from the other arts. I 

 have just defined music as idea in tone. More wide- 

 spread than one might suppose is the narrow view 

 which limits the idea to that which can be expressed 

 in words. Were this true the inner psychical world 

 of ideas would be deprived of much besides music. 

 An idea is that which conveys complete sense to the 

 mind no matter what its peculiar form or vehicle may 

 be, no matter what sense or combination of senses it 

 appeals to. The mind's wealth of ideas is limited 

 only by the number of forms or vehicles in which to 

 embody and express ideas, and no one form of idea 

 has a perfect equivalent in any other form. There 

 is no equivalent in words for an idea in tones and vice 

 versa. A beautiful melody is a perfect idea in tones 

 just as a beautiful poem is a perfect idea in words. 

 Each is perfect of its kind, the one no more so than 

 the other, perfection being absolute and not relative. 

 We may compare the psychology of the two ideas and 

 their relative power, not their truth and beauty, for 



