Ademy, Andover, Massachusetts. Honorary Li

one is using them as parts of a larger design, one can also obtain
novel effects by placing them in

juxtaposition as consecutive movements....
All this, I must
emphasize, is no less a matter of emotional
tone than
of form; the two things cannot well be separated.
For such symphonic effects one employs
what one might term emotion-mass with just as deliberate
a regard for its position in the total design
as one would employ a variation of form. One should regard this
or that emotional theme as a musical
unit having such-and-such a tone quality, and use it only when that
particular tone-quality is wanted. Here I flatly give myself away as
being in reality in quest of a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry in
which the intention is not so much to
arouse an emotion merely, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ

such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same
cool detachment with which
a composer employs notes or chords.
Not content to present emotions