Melody is always a deviation from the keynote through a thousand capricious wanderings, even to the most painful discord, and then a final return to the keynote which expresses the satisfaction and appeasing of the will, but with which nothing more can then be done, and the continuance of which any longer would only be a wearisome and unmeaning monotony corresponding to ennui.
Melodia beti oinarri-tonutik aldentze bat da mila bide errebelatu miresgarritan barrena disonantzia mingarrieneraino, non azkenean oinarri-tonua berraurkitzen baitu, nahimenaren asetzea eta lasaitzea adierazten duena, zeinarekin gero beste ezer ezin baita egin, eta zeinari luzaroago eutsiko balitzaio, monotonia astun eta zentzugabea sortuko bailitzateke, aspertasunari dagokiona.