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The Task of the Melody

Contrary to conventional notion, it is not the purpose of the melody to describe something particularly pleasant.

The melody describes the truth of the formation of character.
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Therefore, it is not at all “sweetish” as we know it in exaggerated form from the entertainment music. 1-3

In classical music, it was never the purpose of the melody to flatly lull someone, or to inebriate him, but it was meant to lead the listener,
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by way of its inner unfoldment,
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directly to the cognition of more comprehensive cosmic
human values –
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thereby to greater personal inner purity, to greater personal inner universal beauty, to greater personal inner cosmic power.
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