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slight inspection, is not immediately striking. 

 Deformity, like picturesqueness, makes a 

 quicker impression ; and the moment it apr 

 pears, strongly rouses the attention. On this 

 principle, ugly music is what is composed 

 according to rule and common proportion ; 

 but which has neither that selection of 

 sweet and softly varying melody and mo- 

 dulation, which answers to the beautiful, 

 nor that marked character, those sud- 

 den and masterly changes, which corres- 

 pond with the picturesque. If such 

 music be executed in the same style in 

 which it is composed, it will cause no strong 

 emotion ; but if played out of tune, it will 

 become deformed, and every such deformity 

 will make the musical hearer start. The en- 

 raged musician stops both his ears against 

 the deformity of those sounds, which Plo- 

 garth has so powerfully conveyed to us 

 through another sense, as almost to justify 

 the bold expression of iEschylus, fc&ogxa xt«*ov. 

 Mere ugliness in visible objects, is looked 

 \ippn without any violent emotion; but 



