v-vi) This got me thinking as I read what these songs sounded like, unfortunately, unless you have a deep knowledge of sheet music hearing the notes jump off the page in a written format is not possible. My hope is that the quotes selected before each line of text tell us not only something about the tone that follows the chapter but also something about the tone of the music itself. The best you can hope for without a piano is to look at the quotes and the chapter that follows in hopes that if the tone between these two matches, then you would see the quote and the music match as well. The first chapter is titled "Of Our Spiritual Strivings" and opens with a quote from Arthur Symons. There is a sense of weariness in the Arthur Symons quote "O water, that weep for rest, it is I, is it? / All night the water weeps for me." (Du Bois, 1994, p. 1) There is also in the quote a sense of sadness in his words, talking about tears and the morning. A sense of sadness combined with desperation runs through the entire poem. These are interesting notes to open a chapter on spiritual endeavors. I expect this to be a chapter of positive things sought, things that may not yet be achieved