music discourse
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Musicologists’ Talk
“Gaps found in our speech thinking about music may be suspected of being areasof music thinking.” – Charles Seeger A while ago I listened to a podcast on which two musicologists were talking about the music of a well known living composer whose music I know well. The musicologists were talking about the usual stuff—what Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Einar Torfi Einarsson’s “Music Is Not” (2019)
“[M]usic is not so fast that adequate control of movements is lost”[8], “music is not art”[9], “music is not appropriate for worship”[10], “music is not always entirely clear”[11], “music is not so likely to use the voice as a conveyor of subjective experience”[12], “music is not solely a twentieth-century phenomenon”[13]… https://www.lhi.is/tolublad-4-music-not Continue reading

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