{"id":4668,"date":"2016-04-17T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2016-04-17T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T23:26:09","slug":"the-sole-purpose-of-art-is-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4668","title":{"rendered":"The sole purpose of art is infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote in 1813 that instrumental music<\/p>\n

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is the most romantic of all the arts \u00a0– one might almost say, the only genuinely romantic one – for its sole subject is the infinite. \u00a0The lyre of Orpheus opened the portals of Orcus – music discloses to man an unknown realm, a world that has nothing in common with the external sensual world that surrounds him, a world which he leaves behind him all definite feelings to surrender himself to an inexpressible language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oliver Strunck, ed. Source Readings in Music History<\/span> (New York, 1950), pp. 775-76. \u00a0Cited in : Plantinga, Leon (1984)\u00a0Romantic Music. \u00a0<\/span>New York: Norton, p.14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote in 1813 that instrumental music is the most romantic of all the arts \u00a0– one might almost say, the only genuinely romantic one – for its sole subject is the infinite. \u00a0The lyre of Orpheus opened the portals of Orcus – music discloses to man an unknown realm, a world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1152,705],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purpose-of-the-arts","tag-e-t-a-hoffmann","tag-expression"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}