"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat." Letter to Leopold Mozart (24 October 1777)
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Machiavelli on dealing with severities versus favors
does this assertion by Machiavelli back up the idea that Devon’s reaction was a strong, adult, reasonable on?