music

Music is the domain that most rewards the disciplined ear — and the disciplined ear is the one that has been trained, through years of close listening, to follow the musical argument. This is not the same as technical proficiency. It is the capacity to hear where a piece has come from, where it is going, and whether it arrives.

The wiki's central philosopher of beauty, music, and the cultivated life.

On what it means to hear music as music — as a sequence of intentions rather than a sequence of sounds, and why the disciplined ear is a moral achievement.