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Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dign

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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