Blog 12: Musical Experience

My final paper is on the musical experience in relation to its private and shared aspects. I am extremely interested in exploring how people experience music, and what connects them in that experience as compared to what sets them apart. I believe there are private aspects in all musical experiences, but that we have privatized certain types so much that the shared experience might not be present in all experiences, though there might be a single thread of it even in the most private listening. The experience of music is complex and hard to boil down, but I attempt to cover the points I find most important to my specific topic.