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As in the other arts the organ of
SS^practisfcd* sense, here the ear must be wholly

enlisted, and to the exclusion of other
occupations. There is a training for the ear as
well as for the eye, which is only by practice. As
the sharp, ready sight comes from long use, so the
quick, accurate, discriminating ear is the result
only of long and right exercise.
In music, from its fleeting, transient
Wakeful. character, the sensibility more needs

to be awake and active than in the
other arts. From the beginning to the end, each
movement must be caught, or the whole effect is
mutilated or destroyed. What escapes cannot be
recovered, as in a new observation of a building, or
a painting. To lose thus a passage or a part would
be like having the eye blinded to a member of a
group or arleading color in a painting, or a limb or
a feature m a statue.
The sympathy is here more directly
Sympathetic. engaged than elsewhere ; for feeling

here comes immediately to feeling and
heart speaks to heart. Whatever breaks or hinders
this sympathy or play of soul mars the effect of
music.
The range of intelligence requisite in
Intelligent musical interpretation will depend

mainly on the professional skill and on
the foreign aid derived from operatic libretti or from
the lyric songs to which the music is adapted.
There; are certain hints to be taken from the science
of musical art, which will be helpful in obtaining



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