A Musical Solution
"Every disease is a musical problem – the cure is a musical solution. The more rapid, and yet more complete the solution – the greater the musical talent of the doctor." - Novalis
Every disease is a musical problem – the cure is a musical solution. The more rapid, and yet more complete the solution – the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
Novalis (1772–1801). From Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia. Das Allgemeine Brouillon – Tr. David W. Wood.
If "ease" is well-being, and "dis-ease" a lack of well-being, then representing it in terms of music could be that the former is a harmonious construction or system, with all its parts, or sounds, in their proper place, and relating to each other in a beneficial way. There is a proper pattern, sequence and combination of sounds. It's not chaotic, the notes, as it were, dance together. One sound leads to another in a way that is in accordance with Nature, even though there is a part that is natural and a part that is artificial, the whole is not contrary to Nature, and serves her, as well as perhaps serving something else. At times…
