Top 5 Susan McClary Quotes
#1. Tonality itself - with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfillment until climax - is the principal musical means during the period from 1600 to 1900 for arousing and channeling desire.
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#2. To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.
Susan McClary
#3. Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order.
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#4. Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.
Susan McClary
#5. For in Western culture, music itself is always in danger of being regarded as the feminine Other that circumvents reason and arouses desire.
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