Excerpt from Réponse À M. Fétis Et Réfutation de Son Mémoire sur cette Question: Les Grecs Et les Romains Ont-Ils Connu l'Harmonie Simultanée des Sons? En Ont-Ils Fait Usage dans Leur Musique?
Jeunesse; que mes organes ne se sont pas 'accoutumés par une longue pratique à ses tendances, à ses combinaisons; que la musique actuelle ne m'est connue que par l'étude et par les livres; que je n'en sens ni le système tonal ni les significations harmo niques etc., etc. Il y a dans ces assertions convenons - en, un moyen oratoire fort ingénieux commencer par discuter les moeurs musicales de son adversaire, c'est on ne peut le nier, le fait d'un homme qui est passé maître - ès - arts en fait de rhétorique non moins qu'en fait de musique? Un mot cependant suffirait pour réduire à néant des assertions aussi tranchantes qu'elles sont gratuites mais à.
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