 [m]usic would seem to have the same limits with respect to hearing; nevertheless, it portrays everything, even objects which are only visible: by an almost inconceivable magic trick it seems to put the eye in the ear, and the greatest marvel of an Art that acts only by motion is to be able to form even the image of rest. Night, sleep, solitude, and silence are counted among Music’s great portraits. (Rousseau 1768, “Imitation”; similar claims on musical imitation are made elsewhere in Rousseau’s oeuvre, see Rousseau 1768, “Opera”, and Rousseau 1781: chapter XVI)