“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything”.

“It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form”

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations has attributed the above words to Plato. That said, this is not without controversy.

But whatever the case, Ludwig van Beethoven has once remarked that “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

And that “I shall hear in haven (in Latin)” were Beethoven’s last words.

It looks such a cruel twist of Fate that one of the greatest composers in the history of mankind has been suffering from hearing capability years before he reached the zenith of his music career and that he was denied almost completely of his ability to hear during his final years on earth.

But the sufferings and struggles Beethoven has endured for all the years might have also been one main source of the courage, passion and hope that has characterized almost all his music, especially Symphony No. 5 “Fate” and the last Symphony No. 9 “Choral”    

Music, therefore, certainly occupies some rather special place in the Humanities and in the Humanities’ struggle against all challenges he/she faces in lives as well as the joy and happiness they have enjoyed.

So, “Mark the Music”, as Shakespeare has counseled.