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284 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
and with those who are in a depressed mental state it is but natural that light, quick airs should lift the spirit out of its gloominess. Music is often responsible for acts of bravery upon the battlefield, just as it occasionally may be the cause of fits of depression. This is due to the influence of the surroundings. No illustration could be better than that of the mental effect of the music of the wedding march at a nuptial or of a funeral march at a burial. Both airs are symbolic of what they represent, with the mind, of course, in a state of receptivity. Just as black to the sense of sight seems to suggest an associated unknown, and consequently a feeling of fear, so centuries of racial experience have associated orange and light colours with sunshine, life, and hope.
The same statement holds true for the sense of hearing, since the noises made by the wind in dead of night find the mind peculiarly alert to impression, which is neither more nor less than a latent mental inheritance that speaks of danger. The same symbolic conscious or unconscious interpretation takes place in music, which is an attempt to stir an emotion that is latent in our sensibilities. This generalization may be proved by the fact that minds are affected by music as by no other sense impression.
A musical temperament is nothing more than the mental penchant found in some individuals in connection with the enjoyment or exercise of the auditory sense. Such people are responsive to impressions, but their leaning may best be described as a state of mind. Through the expression of music all emotions appeal to them, and in turn they try to depict their emotions by means of melody. The phenomenon is not unlike those of other individuals who look at life's realities chiefly through one sense of impression: the painter viewing and enjoying existence in the expression of his art, and the glutton enjoying all the raptures of the world by means of his sense of taste.