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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Excellency, a ship is in sight from the lookout!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good heavens, Kirkconnel! This decides it! exclaimed the General, rising, and generously extending to me his hand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you, whichev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the end!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Margaret, I cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That must rest with you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, Margaret, I am here to plead my own cause, I answered, firmly, determined not to be swayed by any passing mood," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh, do not try me. You know not what I have gone through, and now I am near to God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Margaret, my darling, you will be nearer God when you are beside the man to whom He would confide you. You know I love you with all my soul! How c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Nairn, I said to him, in Margaret's presence, the day before his departure for Montreal with the troops," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God bless my soul, Peggy! he exclaimed, with the utmost honesty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had never t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dalmeny" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've ridden far for name and fame. We've never stooped for gold. We've led the flying columns back With victory in our hold. We've won undying name and fame! Yet all o' it I'd gie To see the red sun set at hame, At hame, in my Ain Countrie." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh, dear, cannot you find some cause for thankfulness?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh yes; like Bougainville, I can at least quote the Psalmist: 'In exitu Israel de-AEgypto, domus Jacob de populo barbaro.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh, d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friends, it is not only 'good-night,' it is 'good-bye.' Good-bye for all time, for you will never see me again alive. To-night at twelve I shall be called hence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At midnight the bell of the chapel will sound. You may come then, but do not touch my body. To-morrow you will seek M. Compain, the curé of the Isle aux Coudres, and he will prepare my body for burial." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Happy the people who still believe these sweet and holy legends." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you see I _mean_ it? I'm goin' to keep that dog--awhile." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The little liar! he breathed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She told me she got it up herself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let down for me thy hair, beloved, I pray thee!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me more of the bad things your children do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To be--_sure_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Atlantic Monthly and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "International Monthly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We acknowledge, of course, he says," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the form,--have each the emotional tone which belongs to it. And so if the music of a Strauss waltz makes us gay, and Handel's Largo serious, it is not because we are reminded of the ballroom or of the cathedral, but because the physical response to the stimulus of the music ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Impressionism and Appreciation, when he enjoins on the appreciative critic not to neglect the literature of aesthetics:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The characteristics of his [the artist's] temperament have been noted with the nicest loyalty; and particularly the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "will be means to show the work of art" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "treatment of art, as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "treatment of literature,--for that is what" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "really are,--can completely justify itself only as the crowning touch of a d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the subtle and peculiar pleasure that each picture, each poem or personality, has in store for us; but of analysis and explanation of this pleasure--of which he speaks in the Introduction to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Renaissance --there is no more. In the fi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The last word has not been said on the mysteries of the writer's art. We know, it may be, how the links of Shakespeare's magic chain of words are forged, but the same cannot be said of any other poet. We have studied Dante's philosophy and his ideal of love; but have we found ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of metaphysics that the science received its name, as designating the theory of knowledge in the form of feeling, parallel to that of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "logical thought. Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, again, made use of the concept of the Beautiful as a kind...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Problemes de l'Esthetique Contemporaine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is beautiful, he discovers that such a judgment is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "inasmuch as it implies that every normal spectator must acknowledge its validity, that it is" }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "aesthetic through his emphasis on the significance of the beautiful object. It is not bound by a conception to which it must attain, so that it is perceived as if it were free. Nor do we desire the reality of it to use for ourselves or for others; so that we are free in relation...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the first picture we have the dearest and loveliest of human relations consecrated by contrast with what is Divine. In the second picture we have the Divine relation itself, showing itself under the limitations of the human. <1> Dutch painting, he tells us, ought not to be de...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "theories of the Beautiful, and does away with the necessity those theories are under of reading sermons into stones. The yellow primrose needs not to remind us of the harmony of the universe, or to have ulterior significance whatever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "others of the aesthetic pleasure. But, according to our definition of the aesthetic experience as a combination of favorable stimulation with repose, this state, as involving" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Emotion." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Groos as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "evidently assuming that pleasure accompanies this. But there are many feelings of sympathy, and joyful ones, which do not belong to the aesthetic realm. In the same way, not all" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Absorption in the object in respect to its bare quality and conformation does not, of course, give the needed information, for objective beauty, of the character of this conformation or form. But yet, it might be said that the content of beauty might conceivably be deduced from ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The beautiful is a perception or an action which stimulates life within us under its three forms simultaneously (i.e., sensibility, intelligence, and will) and produces pleasure by the swift consciousness of this general stimulation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but in all the stages of religious ecstasy, aesthetic pleasure, and creative inspiration, is to be traced what we know as the loss of the feeling of self. Bernard of Clairvaux dwells on" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Says Meister Eckhart," }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then round and round, and out and in, All day that puzzled sage did spin; In vain; it mattered not a pin; The pigtail hung behind him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "disappears, so that the line connecting and separating the two objects in our scheme drops out or is indefinitely decreased. When background or foreground tends to disappear or to merge either into the other, or when background or foreground makes an indissoluble unity or unbrea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in our scheme has dropped out. In my mind there reigns but one thought. The transition feeling goes, for there is nothing to be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the resulting loss of the self-feeling. When the sequence of objects in consciousness is so rapid that the feeling of transition, expressed in motor terms, drops below the threshold of sensation, the feeling of self again fades. Think, for instance, of the Bacchanal orgies. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These sermons made such an impression on my mind, and absorbed me so strongly in God, that I could not open my eyes nor hear what was said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To hear Thy name, O my God, could put me into a profound prayer....I could not see any longer th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The word mystic, to quote Walter Pater," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of such is the counsel of St. Luis de Granada," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Imitate the sportsman who hoods the falcon that it be made subservient to his rule; and of another Spani...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and thirst for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "attain in their reveries to the same impersonal ecstasy. Amiel writes of a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The reverie of Senancour, on the bank of the Lake of Bienne, quoted by Matthew Arnold, reveals the sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--a system of energies reacting on one centre; the sonnet takes us out on one wave of rhythm and of thought, to bring us back on another to the same point; the sonata does the same in melody. In the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! You see your picture! Then it is done. You can paint it in an hour. If all these traditions be true, they are significant; and the necessary conditions of such composition seem to be highly analogous to those of the aesthetic emotion. We have, first of all, a lack of outwa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "thus, we mean the larger sweep of law. If the thinker looks beyond his special problem at all, it is, like Buddha, to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "alone. What, then, of the content? After the analogy of the extreme case, the content--that is, emotional value and definite emotional tone--takes the place of the external suggestion. Under just the conditions of the religious trance, the element of reverence, of joyous sentime...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rejoice that man is hurled From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Laocoon, really the first modern treatise in aesthetics, discusses the excellences of painting and poetry, but deals with visible beauty as if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "experiments,<1> based on" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die psychol.-aesthet. Bedeutung des Licht und Farbencontrastes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The reason for this last is that, in Chevreul's phraseology, combinations of cold colors change each other's peculiar hue the most, and of warm colors the least; because th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that is, comparative relations of light and shade. The real tones of objects including the sky, light, etc., can never be reproduced. The older schools, conscious of this, were satisfied to paint in a scale of correspondence, in which the relative values were fairly kept. But ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the more vivid the pleasure. Whether we (with Groos) designate this as sympathetic reproduction, or (with Lipps) attribute to the figure the movements and the feelings which resound in us after this fashion, or even (with Witasek) insist on the purely ideal character of the repr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "can never alone decide the question of the beauty of visual form. If it were not so, the favorable stimulation combined with repose of the eye would alone make the conditions of beauty. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and favorable as opposed to energetic function...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fernbild ), the contour is denoted by differences of light and shadow, but it is nevertheless perceived in a single act of accommodation. Moreover, being distant, the muscles of accommodation are relaxed; the eye acts at rest. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fernb...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We wish to be put into a fresh, lively, energetic and yet at the same time effortless activity.... The pleasure in form is a pleasure in this, that the conformation of the object makes possible or rather compels a natural purposeful functioning of our apprehending organs. But pu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Das Formprinzip des Schouen," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and pointing in, if taken as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Similarly, objects of intrinsic interest and objects suggesting depth in the third dimension were" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "object are" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for the same reason, because they call out the attention. And expenditure of effort is expenditure of attention; thus, if an object on the outskirts of the field of vision requires a wide sweep of the eye to take it in, it de...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ourselves are contracting our muscles, but we feel as if the lines were pulling and piercing, bending and lifting, pressing down and pushing up; in short, as soon as the visual impression is really isolated, and all other ideas really excluded, then the motor impulses do not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "like the energy of the column, corresponding to that complex? It is at least not energy itself. Ask the same as regards the lines and masses of a picture by Corot. In the sense in which we have taken" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the only psychologically possible on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Each in his separate star," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The solicitude for ardent expression overmasters every aesthetic consideration.... He is a poet with stone as his instrument of expression. He makes it express emotions that are never found save in music or in psychological and lyric literature." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ordinary Greek composition of the body, he puts it, depends on a rhythm of four lines, four volumes, four planes. If the line of the shoulders and pectorals slopes from right to left (the man resting on his right leg) the line across the hips takes the reverse slope, and is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From far off, they are superb, they balance their shoulders under the weight of fatigue, the twilight swallows their forms. It is beautiful, it is great as a myster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "path." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The mediocre artist...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is that man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such a tone is the foil for psychological moments, as they are handled by Goya, for instance, with barbarically magnificent nakedness. On a background which is scarcely indicated, with few strokes, which barely suggest space, he impales like a butterfly the human type, mostly in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of Paul Potter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Card-Players, in Buckingham Palace, portrays a group completely on the right of the central line, all facing in to the table between them. Directly behind them is a high light window, screened, and high on the wall to the extreme right are a picture and hanging cloaks. All g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonnas Enthroned and other altar-pieces are considered at this point as presenting a simple type, in which it is easy to show the variations from symmetry. In all these pictures the balance comes in between the interest in the Infant Christ, sometimes together with direction o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sacred and Profane Love" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spring." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madonna of Burgomaster Meyer, in the Grand Ducal Castle, Darmstadt. It is true that the same pyramid is given by the head of the Madonna against the shell-like background, and her spreading cloak which envelops the kneeling donors. But still more salient is the diamond form give...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Evening Landscape" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dutch Villages," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Concert by Giorgione, in the Pitti Gallery, Florence, is seen the less frequent type of the square. The three figures turned toward each other with heads on the same level make almost a square space-shape, although it might be said that the central player gives a pyramidal found...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adorations, in which, indeed, the contemplative attitude is still more marked. On the other hand, such pictures as the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Descents, the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Annunciations, and very many of the miscellaneous religiou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "pictures, we see that the natural movement of attention between the different" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in the picture must be allowed for, while yet unity is secured. And it is clear that the diagonal type is just fitted for this. The attention sweeps down from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "picture; but it constrains the neutral, inanimate landscape. The shape itself imparts motion to the picture: the sweep of line, the concentration of the vista, the unifying power of the inverted triangle between two masses, act, as it were, externally to the suggestion of the ob...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Beautiful in Music to show that though music ha a limited capacity of expression, its aim is formal or logical perfection alone. The expressionist school could not contradict the undoubted fact that chords and intervals which are harmonious show certain definite physical and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In music we are capable of learning, and knowledge of the principles of musical effect can help us to learn, that the balance and proportion and symmetry of the whole is far more essential than any poignancy, however great, in the parts. He best appreciates music...who understan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Power of Sound, is completely agnostic in its conclusion that music is a unique, indefinable, indescribable phenomenon, which possesses, indeed, certain analogues with other physical and psychical facts, but is coextensive with none. Spencer's theory of music as glorified sp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zwang of which Nietszche speaks, which we all feel, and which makes it helpful. This compelling quality of rhythm would lead us to look behind the sociological influences, for the explanation in some fundamental condition of consciousness, some" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Motor, Visual, and Applied Rhythms," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "theories of rhythm. Attention and expectation are not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as opposed to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Psychol. Of Expectation," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of the number and relation of individual beats constituting a rhythmical sequence there is no awareness whatever on the part of the aesthetic subject....Even the quality of the organic units may lapse from distinct consciousness, and only a feeling of the form of the whole seque...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Structure of Simple Rhythm Forms," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The efforts which feeling makes to hold to...the shape of the first rhythm, the force which it is necessary to use to make it lose its desires and its habits, and to impose others on it, are natural...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These shake- organs at first only gave information about the attitude and movements of the body, and were connected with motor centres so as to be able to reestablish equilibrium by means of reflexes. The original" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What we call resolution is not change from dissonant to consonant IN GENERAL, but the transition of definite tones of a dissonant interval into DEFINITE TONES of a consonant." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Resolution." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "phenomenon is a simpler case of the desire for the feeling of unity. The tonic is the epitome of all the most perfect feelings of consonance or unity which are possible in any particular sequence of tones, and is therefore the goal or resting-place after an excursion. The undoub...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In this step from the state of rest into movement and return, the coming again to rest; on what circuitous ways, with what reluctances and hesitations; whether quick and decisively or gradually and unnoticed--therein consists the nature of melody." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is a strong factor of melody. If it cannot be said that the first note implies the last, it is at least true that from point to point the next step is dimly foreseen, and this effect is cumulative. If melody is an ever-hindered striving for the goal, at least the hindrances them...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "argument. If the principle of choice in the progress of a melody is tone-relationship, the principle of choice cannot also be the cadences of the speaking voice. That musical intervals often RECALL the speaking voice is another matter, as we have said, and to this it may be adde...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ideal musical consciousness would have an ideally great range; it would not only realize the concatenation, but it would take it in as one takes in a single phrase, a simple tune, retaining it from first not to last. The ordinary musical consciousness has merely a much short...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poetic Principle, --that a long poem does not exist; that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is simply a flat contradiction in terms. He says, indeed, that because" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the end of a poem, is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...