What is music?

Aaron,

Thanks for the last post. I think I see where you are coming from, even though I may not agree with you fully.

In some ways we are in full agreement. In others, we seem to be using different terminology and trying to compare apples with oranges.

I never intended to infer that A&E's music did not sound recognizably like "music."

Thank you for making me think. It's a good exercise.

Tim

 

Would you have ever imagined the music of ancient China?

Music is a medium through which interaction occurs.

Music is not demeanor, it communicates demeanor.

 

I have wanted to be able to travel in time and hear certain first performances of works I love.

Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro," any of JS Bach's Church Cantatas, Handel's "Messiah" and many other works. The instruments are different now, philosophies of vocal production are different, etc.

It would be fascinating to hear these thing and actually see the reaction of the audience first hand.

Tim