Music and the Idea of a World: Part III (Coda)
Another World of Longing I end my musical-cosmological reflection with a piece of music that depicts the world as a certain kind of music, polyphony. It is…
Another World of Longing I end my musical-cosmological reflection with a piece of music that depicts the world as a certain kind of music, polyphony. It is…
From Divine Circles to the Wheel of Ixion: Music in a World of Woe The first and main volume of The World as Will and Representation is…
“Music, too, is nature.” —Victor Zuckerkandl, Sound and Symbol This lecture explores the differences between two perspectives on music: one ancient, one modern. The texts I…
Surprised by Beauty: A Listener’s Guide to the Recovery of Modern Music. Robert R. Reilly, Washington, DC: Morley Books, 2002. In his generous and beautifully written…
They who were two and divided now became one and united.” —Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde I come before you this evening not as a…
St. John’s College and the Great Books Program here at Mercer University have much in common. Both programs revolve around a set of great works of Western…