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How Music Works (1084 words) |
 | Eduard Hanslick wrote The Beautiful in Music in 1854 and any explanation and evaluation of his claim that 'the essence of music is sound and motion' must have regard to historical context in determining the author's meaning. |
| For Hanslick 'music' meant principally the instrumental and orchestral works of the 18th Century and first half of the 19th Century, the period we might loosely call 'classical'- music whose 'primordial element' was 'euphony' (The beautiful in music, TAB, p.421). |
| Hanslick's approach is one which seeks to intellectualise music: 'in music there is both language and logical sequence, but in a musical sense; it is language we speak and understand, but which we are unable to translate. |
| 1854 - encyclopedia article about 1854. (2509 words) |
| 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A). |
| One morning in July, 1854, a planter named Williamson, living six miles from Selma, Alabama, was sitting with his wife and a child on the veranda of his dwelling. |
| In 1854 she was married to one of her father's curates, a Mr. |
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