...to recognise the general intention to be more a matter of feeling than of painting in sounds.' • Pastoral Symphony : no picture, but something in which...which some feelings of country -life are set forth.' The titles finally given to the movements of the work are curiously similar to — indeed they are...

...titles to recognise the general intention to be more a matter of feeling than of painting in sounds.' ' Pastoral Symphony : no picture, but something in which...pleasure of the country (or), in which some feelings of country-life are set forth.' The titles finally given to the movements of the work are curiously similar...

...feeling than painting." Even more succinct, if that is possible, is a note in one of his sketch books : " Pastoral Symphony : no picture, but something in which...are aroused in men by the pleasure of the country." This attitude of Beethoven's towards program music, both in practice and in theory, is but a crucial...

..." Not a picture, but something in which are expressed the emotions aroused in men by the pleasures of the country, .or in which some feelings of country life are set forth." It may be remarked in passing that he did not disdain the imitation in tones of natural sounds. This...

...feeling than painting." Even more succinct, if that is possible, is a note in one of his sketch-books : " Pastoral Symphony : no picture, but something in which...are aroused in men by the pleasure of the country." This attitude of Beethoven's towards programme music, both in practice and in theory, is but a crucial...