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tunes. A single voice or a single instrument, however rough, may 
be sufficient to produce such, and the infant, be it man or nation, 
is capable of enjoying such music. But as man or nation develops, 
its fanciful melodies and elaborate harmonies, leaves behind the 
mere dance tunes, and stores asserts the glory of art, just as 
from the mere rough- -hewn stone some great sculptor will ’ produce 
to our wondering, reverent eyes the very image of the gods. In 
its progress, however, music recedes from the crowd, for the com- 
poser is no more the only producer of his works. Between 
and his public is an immense distance, interspersed with obstacles 
of all sorts, unknown to other artists. A painter, for instance, 
composes a ag and with the —- touch of the brush his work 
one ; any one can see it ; any one can even to a certain degree 
form an "opinion on it. The work ‘of the sculptor once finished 
enjoys the same privilege. ngtigire yee it is true, presents to its , 
votaries more difficulties, and in this, asin some other respects, it 
is perhaps the art that most sdisentilak’ music ; for, when the archi- 
tect has conceived and drawn ‘his plan, showing all sides of the 
building Beene measured and numbered, his ‘work is but at the 
beginn till, many can judge at least of its artistic value ; 
many can ‘anticipate what the effect will be when the structure 
rises from the ground ; but once all the difficulties of builders and 
masons are surmounted, what a rich recompense to see grow into 
form the reality of his conception. Then any one, every one may 
admire, may criticise , every day, every hour. There stands the 
rare pile to outlive centuries of human beings, and to glorify by 
ts harmonious proportions and beauty the memory of the man — 
pei was its architect. Its very ruins, in itsage or possible mis- 
fortunes, sing his praise. And yet architecture is an art in which 
intellect alone works, and in which. intellect ca is stirred to 
Seiearaae Now when the musician takes his pen, or, if I may 
ohare with ne is also to tell us what he thinks and feels, to 
make us think and feel as he does, to give us in fine something ¢ 
his soul and of his very heart’s blood, so that what has been sai 
of the great condition of true eloquence, Pectus est quod pee 
facit,” may be applied with at least equal truth to music. 
in other arts it is the artist we turn to admire, in music we forget the 
composer in = multitude of impressions with which he fills our 
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