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450 Of The World's Best Songs And Hymns, With Lyrics & Sheet music for voice & piano.

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	25*	FAVORITE SONGS FOR SCHOOL AND HOME.
	All true arts are expressive, but they are diversely so. Take music; it is, without contradiction, the most penetrating, the profoundest, the most intimate art. There is, physically and morally, between a sound and the soul a marvellous relation. It seems as though the soul were an echo in which the sound takes a new power. Extraordinary things are recounted of the ancient music, and it must not be believed that the greatness of effect supposes here very complicated means. No, the less noise music makes the more		it touches. Give some notes to Pergolese, give him especially some pure and sweet voices, and he returns a celestial charm, bears you away into infinite spaces, plunges you into ineffable reveries. The peculiar power of music is to open to the imagination a limit�less career, to lend itself with astonishing facility to all the moods of each one, to arouse or calm, with the sounds of the simplest melody, our accustomed senti�ments, our favorite affections. In this respect music is an art without a rival, tho' not the first of arts.� V. Cousin.
	LOVING VOICES.		Charles W. Glover.
	Music pays for the immense power that has been given it; it awakens more than any other art the sentiment of the infinite, because it is vague, obscure, indeterminate in its effects. It is just the opposite art to sculpture, which bears less towards the infinite, because everything in it is fixed with the last degree �f precision. Such is the force, and at the same time the feebleness, of music, that it expresses everything and expresses nothing in particular. Sculpture, on the contrary, scarcely gives rise to any reverie, for it dearly represents such a thing, and not such another.		Music does not paint; it touches; it puts in motion imagination�not the imagination that reproduces images, but that which makes the heart beat, for it is absurd to limit imagination to the domain of images. The' heart, once touched, moves all the rest of our being; thus music, indirectly, and to a certain point, can recall images and ideas; but its direct and natural power is neither on the representative imagination nor is it upon the intelligence; it is on the heart, and that is an advantage sufficiently beautiful.� Victor Cousin. Music, the medicine of the breaking heart.�Hunt.