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worthy ( ?) manner for the modern orchestra. A calm unprejudiced 

 observer may safely say that this is a transition period, or possibly a pre- 

 paratory one for some future Beethoven. A Beethoven may never again 

 appear, but if he does he will settle in his own way the problem either by 

 denouncing the modern attitude toward orchestral technique, or else, 

 which is more probable, by making that technique subservient to higher 

 ends, he will prove that music must be judged by its thematic material and 

 the harmonic and contrapuntal development of these themes. Of only 

 one thing can we be certain, and that is that such an one will be no experi- 

 menter, that he vdll have a divine message in music not dependent on 

 this wonderful medium of expression, but made more glorious by reason 

 of it. 



