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%title More <em>Harmonielehre</em> quotes
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%date 2005-10-05 14:47:55
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:diary:livejournal:fossils:
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It is improbable that one would obey a necessity if it did not bring yet other advantages beyond those issuing merely from its minimal requirements; it is also improbable that an advantage would appear that is not attached to the fulfilment of certain necessities. This looks mysterious, and is indeed so: that one does something because necessity compels it and thereby unintentionally produces beauty; or that one has the impulse to create something beautiful and thereby fulfils necessity. It is one of those mysteries that make life worth living.
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- Arnold Schoenberg - <em>The Theory of Harmony</em> tr. Roy E. Carter
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