摘记 一

“that whatever that creative mysterery is, those mystical matchings and mismatchings in that upper circle (love and death), it cannot exist, or come to be, unless it is inextricably rooted in the rich earth of our innate response, in those deep, unconscious regions where the universals of tonaity and language reside. The Poetry of Earth is ceasing never."

"that tonal music is no longer formant; it has been admitted into the avant-garde world, sneakily at first, and then with radical new approaches through which composers have found a way to share again in the fruits of earth."

"And I believe that no matter how serial, or stochastic, or therwise intellectualized music may be, it can always qualify as poetry as long as it is rooted in earth.

I also believe, along with Keats, that the Poetry of Earth is never dead, as long as Spring secceeds Winter, and man is there to perceive it.

I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical peotry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal.

I believe that these sources case to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series.

And that there is an equally universal musical syntax, which can be codified and structured in terms of symmetry and repetition.

And that by metaphorical operation there can be devised paricular remote from their basic origins, but which can be strikingly expressive as long as they retain their rotts in earth.

I believe that our deepest affective responses to these particular languages are innate ones, but do not preclude additional responses which are conditioned or learned.

And that all particular languages bear on one another, and combine into always new idioms, percerptible to human beings.

And that ultimately there idioms can all merge into a speech universal enough to be accessible to all mankind.

And that the expressive distinctions among these idioms depend ultimately on the dignity and passion of the individual creative voice.

And finally, I believe that because all these things are true, Ives' Unanswered Question has an answer. I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I do know that the answer is Yes."