The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skilful than our own.

Famous Quotes / Claude Levi-Strauss

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Claude Levi-Strauss: "The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skilful than our own."

Quotations about

Adds	Anticipate	Anticipates	Basis
Composer	Delicious	Divining	Each
Emotion	Exercises	Experience	Fact
Falling	Feel	Forces	Guess
Gymnastic	Incapable	Into	Ladder
Listener	Moment	Musical	Occurs
Opposite	Pattern	Perform	Point
Precisely	Sensation	Skilful	Springs
Stable	Thinks	Thrust	Torn
Void	Wholly	Withholds

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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skilful than our own. - Claude Levi-Strauss