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What If Music Were Moral?

1/3/2019

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​What if classical music isn’t fundamentally about self-expression (that’s music therapy)? (Of course, we necessarily express ourselves to some extent whenever we compose or perform or listen, but what if that’s not music’s raison d’etre).  Instead, what if classical music (like any real art) is about making sounds that improve the world, that challenge us, that inspire us to be better people. What if we have a moral obligation to avoid self-indulgence and instead to embrace our duty to affect people, to remind them of their common humanity, to make them act in favor of change.  In a world of moral music, what would you use your music to accomplish?
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