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Musica Apologia

Drew

Music is more than pitch and rhythm, and it is more than a consumer product. Recover an enchanted view of music. Ethnomusicology, music philosophy, theology, and personal musings about the meaning of music.

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Musica Apologia Updates (May 2025)

Update on writing

Writing is very slow and painstaking for me. I tend to overextend my scope in each post, which then causes me to split a draft post into multiple drafts. By the time I published my first pair of posts in the summer of...

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What is Music? Part 2: Beautiful Nonsense, or the Divine Art?

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Part 1: The Problem with Definitions

“We don’t have theology. We dance.”
– Shinto priest

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“Where words fail, music speaks.” It’s an axiom that resonates in...

3 years ago
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What is Music? Part 1: The Problem with Defining Music

Read the other parts of this series:
Part 2: Beautiful Nonsense, or the Divine Art?

What is music?

There’s a whole Wiki article dedicated to exploring that question. (The community “Talk” tab of that article is equ...

3 years ago
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    Music educator still trying to figure out what music actually is. Bachelor of Music Education; M.A. Ethnomusicology; I am enthusiastic to learn about the world's musics and their implications for understanding, living, and being in the world.

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