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I don't know whether I like it, but it's what I meant.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

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  1. The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Per…
  2. The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
  3. The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
  4. The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only…
  5. Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and h…
  6. Film composing is a splendid discipline, and I recommend a course of it to all composition teachers whose pupils are apt to be dawdling in …
  7. Art for art's sake has never flourished in England. We are often called inartistic because our art is unconscious. Our drama and poetry, li…
  8. Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.

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  • creation
  • intent
  • meaning
  • reception
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