…auditory structure is not composed of discrete components but of inter-penetrating components, as in musical forms. That is, perhaps, why auditory structures challenge rational awareness of causes, whereas visual structure yield perspectives, points of view, and systems of knowledge.
“Romanticism Reviewed” Review of Romantic Image, by Frank Kermode, in Renascence, Vol. 12, No. 4, Summer 1960, p 207
Year: 1960
Chapter:
Acoustic Space
Compiled by William Kuhns
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