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music as a practice rather than as a succession of works. As philosopher Patricia Carpenter has observed, “In our contemporary way of thinking, a piece of music is a specific kind of an object…ultimately, an object made for its own sake, a form of being-in-itself. On this view, ‘music,’ then, becomes the total collection of all its
My Concise OED says music is "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion; the sounds so produced; musical compositions". The last suggestion fails as a definition by virtue of its circularity and the second refers us back to the first.
- Stephen Davies
Jan 27, 2022 · Music Definition and Music Education: many perspectives, many voices, many questions. January 2022. Publisher: Greek Society for Music Education (GSME) ISBN: 978-618-83465-6-7. Authors:
MLOC - Analysis. This resource has been designed to help music students and teachers: understand the language of music in a deep and meaningful way. listen to others perform in a conscious and knowledgeable way. understand how the expressive elements of Music can be manipulated to create specific expressive outcomes.
He has suggested that the complex aesthetic embeddedness of world music is radically different from Western music. As an example he describes how the aesthetic power and meaning of sacred music resides in its ability to do something, to effect change, to transform text, narrative and ritual into meaning. (2002: 13).
- Andrew J Chung
Levinson, whose goal is to define music as an art, proposes that music is "sounds temporally organized by a person for the purpose of enriching or intensifying experience through active engagement (e.g., listening, dancing, performing) with the sounds regarded primarily, or in significant measure, as sounds" (1990:273).
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Jan 19, 2021 · creation of such file s need not involve perfo rmance, that is, the sounding forth of music f rom the body or from musical instru ments or other reson ato rs. Some works, such as Beethoven's
