The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation. - Ralph Vaughan Williams

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

In the next world, I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?