Music: a practical definition

From: Musical Times | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Godt, Irving | Copyright information

EVERYONE KNOWS what it is, don't they? If pressed for a definition, most musicians begin with emotional evasions like 'I feel' or 'I believe'. That is not a helpful point of departure. Ethnomusicologists, philosophers, sociologists, and philologists have all defined music, but I don't remember ever having read a formal definition without an axe to grind: a composer's, a theorist's, a promoter's, or some other's. One of the great faux pas of music lexicography was the omission of an article on...

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