Notes from a diary.

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What, does music mean? I've been living with music all my life and still don't know the answer. Surely music's the most immediately persuasive of the seven arts--can any of the others make us weep, or fall in love, or recall the past? Yet how does music do this? Is the ear more sensitive than the eye? Or is it that our whole body is affected, as when we are moved to dance? Mendelssohn said: "It's not that music is too vague for words, it's too precise for words."

But if music can be proved to have concrete meaning, it's only music with words, like songs and choruses and operas, and then it's the words, not the notes, that are the proof. For words are symbo...

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