Questions on Music for Five Experts – Part Five

[ks. suomenkielinen versio]   Max PaddisonProfessor Emeritus of Music AestheticsDurham UniversityAuthor of Adorno’s Aesthetics of Music (1993) & Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture (1996)   What is music? What does it mean? Music is sometimes defined as “the experience of organized sound unfolding through time”, but this doesn’t really help very much because it’s such … Lue lisää

Questions on Music for Five Experts – Part Four

[ks. suomenkielinen versio]   Silke WulfDoctor of PhilosophyUniversity of BremenAuthor of Zeit der Musik (2013)   What is music? What does it mean? Music is a creative act in which our mind can find freedom. Probably it ‘means’ nothing.  Why do we keep listening to it?We listen to music because it moves us. What has … Lue lisää

Questions on Music for Five Experts – Part Three

[ks. suomenkielinen versio]   Kathleen Higgins Professor of Philosophy University of Texas at Austin Author of The Music of Our Lives (1991) & The Music Between Us (2012)   What is music? What does it mean? I use a broad definition of music. I accept John Blacking’s definition of “humanly organized sound,” but add “…and … Lue lisää

Questions on Music for Five Experts – Part Two

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[ks. suomenkielinen versio]   Rose Rosengard SubotnikProfessor Emerita of MusicBrown UniversityAuthor of Developing Variations (1991) & Deconstructive Variations (1996)   This is for my children, Eva Subotnik and Joseph (Joey) Subotnik,and for theirs   Why do we keep listening to music? I think the answers are different at different stages of life. Small children (I … Lue lisää

Questions on Music for Five Experts – Part One

[ks. suomenkielinen versio]   Andy HamiltonProfessor of PhilosophyDurham UniversityAuthor of Aesthetics and Music (2007) & Lee Konitz: The Art of the Improvisor (2007)   What is music? What does it mean? I’ve defined music as “an art with a small ‘a’, that is, a practice involving skill or craft whose ends are essentially aesthetic, which particularly … Lue lisää