... innumerable instances of the way the continuously generating melody scatters image sparks all around, which in their variegation, their abrupt change, their mad precipitation, manifest a power quite unknown to the epic and its steady flow."" These unrelated images that flash within one's mind is condemned by the steady flowing Apollinian epos (Cockburn; Nietzsche 53). In folk music, the language of the ... . These symbols arise from the music and are completely dependent upon the spirit of the music. Music, however, does not need these symbols "but merely endures them as accompaniments. ...

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