A Perfect and Universal Language
In a true composition a miniature of nature’s music is seen.
The effects of thunder, rain, and storm, and the pictures of hills
and rivers make music a real art. Although art is an improvisation
on nature, yet it is only genuine when it keeps close to nature.
The music which expresses the nature and character of individuals,
nations or races is still higher. The highest and most ideal form
of composition is that which expresses life, character, emotions
and feelings, for this is the inner world which is only seen by
the eye of mind. A genius uses music as a language to express fully,
without the help of words, whatever he may wish to make known; for
music, a perfect and universal language, can express feeling more
comprehensively that any tongue.
Music loses its freedom by being subject to the laws of technique,
but mystics in their sacred music, regardless of the world’s
opinion, free both their composition and improvisations from the
limitations of technicality.
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