Musical Material

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“Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Art never improves, but ... the material of art is never quite the same.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)