Tag: music
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Music for Savage Breasts and Scorned Women
I went searching for a misquotation “Music soothes a savage beast”, and found… William Congreve writes in his tragic play The Mourning Bride (1697): Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d, By…