Blog 6

Throughout class, we have been discussing what is music. To help better undertsnad music, I took a three quotes out of higgings book to help define music.

1. “Music,” as commonly used, may refer to sound, a piece of paper, an abstract formal concept, a collective behavior of society, or a single coordinated pattern of neurochemical impulses in the brain. It can be a product or a process. . . For now let “music” signify anything that is normally called “Music.”      --Lewis Rowell, Thinking about Music
2. "Music is a product of the behavior of human groups, wether formal or informal: it is humanly organzied sound." -- John Blacking, How Musical Is Man?
3. "Music . . . is sounds understood in response. -- Roger Scruton, "Analytic Philosophy and the Meaning of Music"