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For the sake of the exquisiteness of emotion
which music may express, as well as for the
sake of perfection of the music itself,
therefore, there is a place for the formalization and co-ordination of
different contemporary musical resources by means of their common relationship
with the overtone series, which, although it forms a mathematical, acoustical,
and historical gauge, is not merely a matter of arithmetic, theory, and
pedantry, but is itself a living essence from which musicality springs.
Henry Cowell
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