Now there
is an absurdity saying that harmony is discord or is composed of elements
which are still in a state of discord. But what he probably meant was,
that harmony is composed of differing notes of higher or lower pitch which
disagreed once, but are now reconciled by the art of music; for if the
higher and lower notes still disagreed, there could be no harmony,--clearly
not. For harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an
agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot
harmonize that which disagrees. In like manner rhythm is compounded of
elements short and long, once differing and now in accord; which
accordance, as in the former instance, medicine, so in all these other
cases, music implants, making love and unison to grow up among them; and
thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their
application to harmony and rhythm. Again, in the essential nature of
harmony and rhythm there is no difficulty in discerning love which has not
yet become double.
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