Audio: Philosophers Zone: The Sound of Music

Mar 5, 2011 by Farhang Erfani

 

What do we mean when we say that the hills are alive to the sound of music? Isn’t the point not that music has sound but that it is sound? And does this mean that the source of the sound – the singer, the violinist, the guitarist – doesn’t, from a musical point of view, really matter? This week, we explore some difficult questions in the philosophy of music.

via Philosophers Zone – 5 March 2011 – The Sound of Music.