
From Chapter 5 on "The Hierarchy of Emotion," the section on "Music & the Hierarchy of Emotion," of Emotion in Life & Music.
“The essence of the symphonic process is the pattern of establishing some incomplete or conflicted emotional theme, breaking it down and taking it apart, considering all the components from various angles and in various permutations and transformations, and then reassembling the elements, bringing it all together into a reorganized summary context, thus resolving the conflict and achieving integrity of the psyche.”
“The essence of the symphonic process is the pattern of establishing some incomplete or conflicted emotional theme, breaking it down and taking it apart, considering all the components from various angles and in various permutations and transformations, and then reassembling the elements, bringing it all together into a reorganized summary context, thus resolving the conflict and achieving integrity of the psyche.”