The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, … - Nadia Boulanger

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Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people.

Nadia Boulanger

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.

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