Lydia Goehr: Music is Not Mysterious

Music is marvellous, but not mysterious: an interview with Lydia Goehr
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For centuries, philosophers have got music wrong by making it mysterious, says Lydia Goehr, professor of philosophy at Columbia University in New York. What really matters is what we do with the music. In this Aeon interview, Goehr explains how understanding music’s functions gives insights into its power without diminishing its beauty.
Producer: Kellen Quinn
Interviewer: Nigel Warburton
Editor: Adam D’Arpino
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[@youtubecustodian4872]

I like the dichotomy of music she presented through the Holocaust.

[@fuckyoutubengoogle2]

Music was mysterious to me before I watched this vid. No less after watching.

[@fuckyoutubengoogle2]

That wasn't a compliment. A demystification was promised by implication, but nothing was delivered.

[@marcjones7012]

@@fuckyoutubengoogle2 I find the whole philosophy of music as a topic rather vapid and impotent. I genuinely wonder, after reading Goehrs
first book, which I'll be honest I found exhausting, if there's really any value in all this intellectual posturing and it really only serves to find a long winded way to say why you may or may not relate to, or find value, in a particular piece of music.
It certainly did nothing to inform my own abilities to compose and express myself musically.

[@juliusseizure591]

@@marcjones7012 Really? I loved Goehr's first book when I read it. Each to their own I guess...