托馬斯-布朗-論和諧

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Of Harmony

　　It is my temper, and I like it the better, to affect all harmony: and sure there is musick even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is a musick where ever there is a harmony, order, or proportion: and thus far we may maintain the music of the Sphears; for those well-ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Whatsoever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes me much distrust the symmetry of those heads which declaim against all Church-Musick. For my self, not only for my obedience, but my particular Genius, I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and Tavern-Musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer. There is something in it of Divinity more than the ear discovers: it is an Hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole World, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole World, well understood, would afford the understanding. In brief, it is a sensible fit of that harmony which intellectually sounds in the ears of God.

　　我生性耽愛(ài)一切之和諧，于此，我且頗以自得；確實(shí)，甚至在鴆彼得所奏放的無(wú)聲音籟之中與美感之內(nèi)，無(wú)不有音樂(lè)的存在，其吐音之佳妙迥出一般樂(lè)器之上。此亦緣音樂(lè)即在和諧、秩序與比例勻稱之中，而星際樂(lè)聲一說(shuō)至少可以此為部分依據(jù)；其秩序井然之動(dòng)作，節(jié)拍分明之步武，此在常人耳中雖悄無(wú)聲息，然在穎慧者聽(tīng)來(lái)，確乃和諧無(wú)藝之妙樂(lè)。大凡和諧構(gòu)成之物，必喜和諧，據(jù)此，則彼輩攻擊一切教堂音樂(lè)者，其頭腦之中是否尚有勻稱二字，我實(shí)不能不深致疑慮。至于我自己，我對(duì)上述之音樂(lè)確實(shí)服膺無(wú)已，此固與我之虔誠(chéng)信仰有關(guān)，亦系我的特殊稟賦所致；甚即通常旅店之俚俗音樂(lè)，所敘不出嬉樂(lè)激切之情，尚能使我對(duì)那最初制曲人于胸臆之中頓生仰慕之忱與遙深之想；其中圣潔處有非人耳所能察覺(jué)者。它是茫茫世界蕓蕓眾生的一篇佶屈恢詭的天啟，使上下塵寰徹悟之后捧供識(shí)者聆賞的一闕悠揚(yáng)的妙樂(lè)。要言之，它是上徹天聽(tīng)的玲瓏曼妙的仙籟的陣陣和諧。

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