{"id":764,"date":"2018-11-15T15:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=764"},"modified":"2018-11-15T15:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T15:15:31","slug":"dr-robert-greenberg-on-what-is-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Robert Greenberg on &#8220;What is Music&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an extended quote from the audio course\u00a0<em>Understanding the Fundamentals of Music<\/em> by Robert Greenberg, lecture 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Music is a language; a mode of sonic communication through which a tremendous amount of information of all sorts &#8212; aesthetic, stylistic, emotional and so forth&#8211; can be transferred with an ease that belies its complexity. [&#8230;] I would suggest that music is the ultimate language &#8212; a mega language &#8212; a language in which our hard-wired proclivities to use successions of pitches and sounds to communicate are exaggerated, intensified, and codified into a sonic experience capable of infinitely more expressive depth and nuance than mere words alone. [&#8230;] The great mid-century composer, Roger Sessions (who was the teacher of my teacher, a gentleman named Andrew Imbrie) said that music is the &#8220;controlled movement of sound in time&#8221;. Although we respectfully ask, &#8220;Controlled by whom?&#8221; Our working definition will draw on what is best from Sessions&#8217; definition. Music is sound in time &#8212; or, if you prefer &#8212; time ordered by sound. That&#8217;s it! And that&#8217;s enough. That definition isolates the two essential aspects of music &#8212; sound and time &#8212; without any qualifications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an extended quote from the audio course\u00a0Understanding the Fundamentals of Music by Robert Greenberg, lecture 1. Music is a language; a mode of sonic communication through which a tremendous amount of information of all sorts &#8212; aesthetic, stylistic, emotional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=764\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}