Help with understaning these excerpts.?

Question

The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing
an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and
time. To be put into practice, its indispensable and single requirement is
construction. Construction once completed, this order has been attained, and
there is nothing more to be said. It would be futile to look for, or expect anything
else from it. It is precisely this construction, this achieved order, which produces
in us a unique emotion having nothing in common with our ordinary sensations
and our responses to the impressions of daily life. One could not better define the
sensation produced by music than by saying that it is identical with that evoked by
contemplation of the interplay of architectural forms. Goethe thoroughly
understood that when he called architecture petrified music.

Answer 1

Where is this quote from? I'll take a stab at it, but without context what I say might be completely wrong.

Essentially, it starts with the concept that humans like order. The world is naturally chaotic, but the central feature of human behavior is the creation of order from this chaos; we are driven to create order, and we experience emotional pleasure from creating order and experiencing the order created by others.

With respect to space things are pretty random - a tree here, a rock there, with no discernable pattern or relationship. Architecture is the act of bringing order to space, establishing forms and relationships between forms.

Likewise, music acts to bring order to time. It establishes beats that cut time up into discrete forms, and then establishes relationships between these forms. The pleasure we get from music is the appreciation of this temporal order. Architecture is order frozen (petrified) in space, music is order traveling through time.

Architecture : Space :: Music : Time

If this reading is correct, my problem with it is that it makes it seem like the most pleasurable music possible would be a perfectly executed 4/4 beat, and the most pleasurable architecture possible would be a perfectly cubical room.

Answer 2

In plain language, music evokes good feelings. The rest of the given discussion is simply there to lull you into thinking that music is somewhat "unreachable" --- the flowery and useless imagery used does not exactly help to convey a very simple meaning.

Answer 3

That architecture and music are reciprocally good metaphors or analogies for each other.

'produces
in us a unique emotion having nothing in common with our ordinary sensations
and our responses to the impressions of daily life. '

I would say nothing has everything 'in common' with its concept and therefor contradict that one excerpt quotation.