Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects
Isaiah Berlin
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The Attitudes of Music in the Eighteenth Century
In the eighteenth century, particularly in france, music is regarded as a farely inferior art. The kind of sounds which musicians used were clearly much remoter from any kind of ordinary human experience than those used by other artists. Vocal music has its place because it heightens the importance of words. Religious music has its Place because it continutes to the mood which religion is meant to induce. But it is clear that thevisual art is far more sensitive to the spiritual life of man than for example, the er font who was the most civilized man of his time.
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