The music of nature; or an attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the animated world : With curious and interesting illustrations / [William Gardiner].

  • Gardiner, William, 1770-1853
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The music of nature; or an attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the animated world : With curious and interesting illustrations / [William Gardiner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Then may we not suppose, that the decay of the organ arises from the internal action of the mind, calling up ideas of light and sound ? To those who have never heard,-—what a blank the creation must appear !—all in motion, yet silent as death ! The horrors of such a scene cannot be described; and we may say with Hartley, when we compare the imperfections of those who have never heard with those who have never seen, that the ear is of much more importance to us than the eye. must we say to his posthumous quartetts ? Who dare, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task of unravelling the hidden mys- teries they contain ?