We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known…

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.

- Jean-Philippe Rameau

Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, w…

- Jean-Philippe Rameau