Music and the mind

Tom Service examines two extracts that explore the duality, transcendence and heightened awareness of musicA couple of quotes on music to get your week started, which strangely resonated with each other when I read them, whatever their wildly different provenances – you'll see what I mean. The first is from composer Jonathan Harvey's recent essay Buddhism and the Undecidability of Music, published in Sylph Editions' Cahiers Series:"Music is in some sense a picture of wisdom. It is even an expl...

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