![]() ![]() Songs can’t really guide you on a life’s journey, can they? “The ancients knew that wisdom had to be sung or chanted. ![]() Yet people are skeptical when I say that songs offer a pathway to a higher level of existence-or what we call the good life. Music itself provides its own justification-more powerful than any text-and each one of us has felt its power. But that hardly changes the fact that it is an absurdity. To pursue musicology means that you live out this absurdity as a vocational necessity. It’s actually even worse than that, because a cloud has more substance than a song. Parmenides, the great Greek philosopher and mentor to Socrates, wrote his works entirely in the form of hymns-that was typical of the Orphic tradition he inheritedĪ music writer -what a sad oxymoron!-is really a metaphysician. ![]()
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