Music Quote
Wednesday October 17 2007
Music alone contains the all-important secret of separating the soul from all mortal cares for at least as long as the notes can keep it absorbed, through the skillful management of consance, whether vocal or instrumental. And if sleep is so universally praised for its power to enthrall the senses of unhappy humanity, lifting them up and, for a few hours, making them impervious to misfortune, how much more praiseworthy must an art be which, not robbing us life as does sleep (when it is called the Brother of Death), allows us to live ecstatically in delicious, contented peace, our senses fully about us, yet glad and truly blissful. This art— deserves to have voices, instruments, poetry, painting, architecture, mechanics, mimic, and any other art pay court to it and obey it.
- Pier Jacopo Martello, 1715
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