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“In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
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“Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Moving Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
#Musical Quotes
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“We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Genius Quotes
#Ears Quotes
#Talent Quotes
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“When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Morality Quotes
#Reason Quotes
#Instinct Quotes
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“I try to conceal art with art.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Art Quotes
#Trying Quotes
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“Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Firsts Quotes
#Common Quotes
#Cry Quotes
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“Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Sound Quotes
#Born Quotes
#Rhythm Quotes
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“Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Source : Jean-Philippe Rameau (1971). “Traite de l'harmonie reduites a ses principes naturels”, p.35, Courier Corporation
#Principles Quotes
#Mathematics Quotes
#Aids Quotes
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“Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
#Singing Quotes
#Speech Quotes
#Common Quotes
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“Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.”
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
Source : "Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.
#Perfect Quotes
#Progress Quotes
#Titles Quotes
