As a long time singer and reader of music, i tend to see music in a different way that most typical readers or philosophers. When listening to music I tend to, subconsciously or consciously, hear each note and instrument separately even as I hear it as a completed piece. I also have biases ingrained into my opinions of good music by my music teachers. They tended greatly towards both classical music and spiritual music, only rarely giving us anything more recent. Also, when reading music I cannot imagine seeing it as anything other than music. In order to read it I have to hear it in my head. The sound and the written directions are inescapably connected in my mind. Higgins brings this up. Isn't the performance you hear in your head just as flawed as one which is performed by professional musicians?
My personal view of music is much like Higgins's, if not closer to John cage's. So many things in this world have a musical quality to them that cannot be ignored, even if that means only putting them under a category of music.
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