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- GLC#
- GLC05508.231-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 12, 1930
- Author/Creator
- Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932
- Title
- to John W. Hughes
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.5 cm, Width: 21.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- The Great Depression
Sousa writes to Hughes remarking that the only way of judging music is whether or not it has beauty. He discusses differences between composers of the "olden days" and those of today. Sousa believes inspiration for writing music comes from something above oneself, and that contemporary compositions written from knowledge of harmonic structure alone lack the quality of inspiration.
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