The Big QuestionThe big question is: "What is Music?".
It seems an easy question to answer, because we are all so familiar with music. But being familiar with something is not the same thing as knowing what it is. When I ask myself this question about music, I ask it as a scientific question. So I want an answer which relates music to our scientific understanding of the world. And I want an answer that makes predictions about music (and for bonus points, it should make predictions about other things besides music). I don't know for sure that I've got any closer to answering this question yet. Over the years (and the decades), I've had some promising ideas. Some of those ideas still seem promising, and others now seem less promising. I'm fairly sure that no one else has yet answered the question. The production of new music that people want to listen to continues to be more of an art than a science – which means that even the people making music don't really know what it is. So, let me introduce myself. My name is Philip Dorrell, and I am a Music Science addict Read Blog: http://whatismusic.info/ Comments are closed.
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