Ramblings
About Music
9.
Philosophers on Music
In which we find out what some top brains have said about music and encounter a ghostly owl: modern philosophy – pessimist and optimist, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche – self realisation – thinking in music – the quickening art –deepest truth – Helmholtz and musical sensations – inner time – notes versus texture – a game of symmetry and fulfilment.
9.
Philosophers on Music
In which we find out what some top brains have said about music and encounter a ghostly owl: modern philosophy – pessimist and optimist, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche – self realisation – thinking in music – the quickening art –deepest truth – Helmholtz and musical sensations – inner time – notes versus texture – a game of symmetry and fulfilment.
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Route 9: Philosophers on Music
Click on a topic for short summaries of this section and information about the walk itself. The Nature of Reality... and Music Plato Hermetic Philosophy Church music: Reformation, Martin Luther Descartes Schopenhauer Nietzsche: Dionysian and Apollonian modes; self-realisation Helmholtz Link to Chapter Ten |
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