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John Milton, Arcades, line 68.
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John Milton, Areopagitica (1644).
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John Milton, Comus (1637), line 244.
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John Milton, Hymn on the Nativity, Stanza 13.
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John Milton, Il Penseroso (1631), line 161.
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John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book I, line 708.
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John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V. 620.
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John Milton, L'Allegro, line 143.
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John of Patmos, Revelation 14:3, NWT.
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John Rockwell (1983). All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0394511638.
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Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Stanza 4.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland, Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects, Art and Life.
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Language addresses itself to the ear. No other medium does this. The ear is the most spiritually determined of the senses. That I believe most men will admit. Aside from language, music is the only medium that addresses itself to the ear. Herein is again an analogy and a testimony concerning the sense in which music is a language. … Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. Music is the only other one that takes place in time. … Music exists only in the moment of its performance, for if one were ever so skillful in reading notes and had ever so lively an imagination, it cannot be denied that it is only in an unreal sense that music exists when it is read. It really exists only being performed. This might seem to be an imperfection in this art as compared with the others whose productions remain, because they have their existence in the sensuous. Yet this is not so. It is rather a proof of the fact that music is a higher, or more spiritual art.
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Lathrop, Music of Growth.
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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. From a letter to Christian Goldbach, April 17, 1712. Quot. after: Schäfke, R. Geschichte der Musikästhetik in Umrissen. Mit einem Vorwort von Werner Korte. 2 Aufl. Tutzing, Schneider, 1964, S. 289