5113. The cause of this is from no other source than the feeling arising from love, which is rich with sound, as also can be demonstrated by harmonies and musical instruments. When these express higher things of love, such as love to God, then too there must be a rich sound; likewise when they give expression to a devout feeling about God there is an almost bass sound. But when the feelings are about other things, these produce different sounds that harmonize with the related melody.
5113. The reason is from no other source than the affection of love, which is full-sounding, as may likewise be manifest from harmonics and music. When these express the higher things of love, as love to God, then, also, there will be a full sound; and when, too, they mark some devout sentiment concerning God, there is, as it were, the bass. But when other things are concerned, then the sounds vary in a different manner; so that they agree, respectively, with the melody.
5113. Causa non aliunde est, quam ex affectione amoris, quae est grandisona, ut quoque constare potest ab harmonicis, musicis, quando illi exprimunt altiora amoris, ut in Deum, tunc quoque grandisonum erit, et quoque cum de Deo aliquod devotum signant, est quasi bassus; at cum de aliis, tunc sonant aliter; sic ut consentiant cum discanto respective.