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The discrepancy between the requirements of larger
forms and the simple construction of folk tunes has never been solved and
cannot be solved. A simple idea must not use the language of profundity,
or it can never become popular. Everybody will understand the statement
that parallel lines are ‘in all parts equally distant’ (Webster).
But the
scientific formulation that ‘they meet only at infinity’ requires
too much
thinking and imagination to be generally understood and to become popular.
Arnold Schoenberg
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