Excerpt from The Psychology of Sound N o doubt my theoretical constructions must be carried somewhat further before they can be held to have passed fully over into the elements consciously used by productive musicians and appreciative listeners. The gap is not a large one and is in great part filled by a psychical field that a theorist of sensory experience dare not rush into - the field of psychical habit and attitude. That field belongs chiefly to the historian and ethnologist. No doubt theory can go somewhat further still than I have gone. But it cannot go very far, for the working musician definitely takes over at a certain point the raw materials of his art from the real psychical processes of hearing, inaccessible in full to observation, and then proceeds to construct from them vast new realms without consulting anything that lies beyond the ken of observation. But I am not concerned about what I have not yet attained. If my theoretical efforts are valid, they will grow easily; if they are unfit to survive, the canker will be found within their body. But I think they are healthy enough to overcome in active life whatever weakness may have been born with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.