托馬斯-布朗-論和諧
Of Harmony
It is my temper, and I like it the better, to affect all harmony: and sure there is musick even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a musick where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the Sphears; for those well-ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Whatsoever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaim against all Church-Musick. For my self, not only for my obedience, but my particular Genius, I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and Tavern-Musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer. There is something in it of Divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole World, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God.
我生性耽愛一切之和諧，于此，我且頗以自得；確實，甚至在鴆彼得所奏放的無聲音籟之中與美感之內，無不有音樂的存在，其吐音之佳妙迥出一般樂器之上。此亦緣音樂即在和諧、秩序與比例勻稱之中，而星際樂聲一說至少可以此為部分依據；其秩序井然之動作，節拍分明之步武，此在常人耳中雖悄無聲息，然在穎慧者聽來，確乃和諧無藝之妙樂。大凡和諧構成之物，必喜和諧，據此，則彼輩攻擊一切教堂音樂者，其頭腦之中是否尚有勻稱二字，我實不能不深致疑慮。至于我自己，我對上述之音樂確實服膺無已，此固與我之虔誠信仰有關，亦系我的特殊稟賦所致；甚即通常旅店之俚俗音樂，所敘不出嬉樂激切之情，尚能使我對那最初制曲人于胸臆之中頓生仰慕之忱與遙深之想；其中圣潔處有非人耳所能察覺者。它是茫茫世界蕓蕓眾生的一篇佶屈恢詭的天啟，使上下塵寰徹悟之后捧供識者聆賞的一闕悠揚的妙樂。要言之，它是上徹天聽的玲瓏曼妙的仙籟的陣陣和諧。
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