«Музыкофилия» kitobidan iqtiboslar, sahifa 2

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain...Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves.

Способность воспринимать (или воображать) музыку может нарушаться при некоторых поражениях головного мозга; существует множество таких видов амузии. С другой стороны, музыкальное воображение может стать избыточным и неуправляемым, что приводит к бесконечному повторению навязчивых мелодий или даже к музыкальным галлюцинациям.

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and refrains. We are attracted to repetition, even as adults; we want the stimulus and the reward again and again, and in music we get it. Perhaps, therefore, we should not be surprised, should not complain if the balance sometimes shifts too far and our musical sensitivity becomes a vulnerability.

Люди, пережившие такой опыт, не способны отбросить его, иногда он приводит их к обращению, к метанойе, к изменению направлен