...indefinite chord for muted brass and celesta. III. LANDSCAPE Ye ice falls! Ye that from the mountain s brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents,...maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! Silent cataracts! Coleridge, Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni The music here is chiefly atmospheric, but...

...invulnerable Life, Your Strength, your Speed, your Fury, and your Joy, Unceasing Thunder and eternal Foam! And who commanded (and the silence came) Here let the Billows stiffen, and have Rest! 'Hymn before Sun-rise' (39^8) Here, as earlier in the poem, the autonomy of the elements of the scene...