Excerpt from Orchestral Instruments and Their Use: Giving a Description of Each
Whatever origin may be assigned to music, - whether imitation of bird-calls, differences in cries of attack and defence, or a natural expression of the feelings, - there can be no doubt that musical instruments in their primitive forms were derived directly from nature. According to the definition of Fetis, music is simply the art of moving the emotions by combinations of sounds, and while these combinations are the result of human efforts, the methods of producing single tones were plainly suggested by the inanimate world.
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