Music
by Lael Johnson · updated 4d ago
Music
by Lael Johnson · updated 4d ago
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
Lael Johnson added 4d ago
But for virtually all of us, music has great power, whether or not we seek it out or think of ourselves as particularly “musical.”
Lael Johnson added 5d ago
Listening to music is not just auditory and emotional, it is motoric as well: “We listen to music with our muscles,” as Nietzsche wrote. We keep time to music,
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What do I mean by ‘betweenness'? Think about the nature of music. Music does not exist in one particular note – which is in itself meaningless; or in a lot of such single notes, each in itself meaningless. I am tempted to say it exists more in the spaces than in the notes: the spaces between successive notes in pitch that creates the melody, the sp
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