FOOTNOTES
[1] For suggestive comments on this point see the essays Harmonie et Melodie by Saint-Saëns, Chapters I and II.
[2] See Chapter II of Gurney's Power of Sound, a book remarkable for its insight.
[3] It is understood that this statement is made in a subjective rather than a purely physical sense. See the Century Dictionary under Sound.
[4] Il y a donc, dans l'art des sons, quelque chose qui traverse l'oreille comme un portique, la raison comme un vestibule et qui va plus loin.
Harmonie et Melodie, Chapter II.
[5] La musique, ses lois, son evolution, by Jules Combarieu.
[6] Just as some people are color-blind there are those who are tone-deaf—to whom, that is, music is a disagreeable noise—but they are so few as to be negligible.
[7] From earliest times, mothers have doubtless crooned to their infants in instinctive lullabies.