I try to conceal art with art.

I try to conceal art with art.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.