Musical Expression - Accents, Nuances, and Tempo, in Vocal and Instrumental Music #226558

Sentiment is as individual and intermittent as reason is general and constant, and therefore to support and illustrate sentiment by reason is essentially the way to popularise it. Surely a few months devoted to the study of this science would not be thrown away if musicians were thereby enabled not only to explain the reason of accents, nuances, rallentandos, accelerandos, and all the other phenomena of expression, but also to perform with expression and artistic feeling. May this hope be fulfilled!