musical philosophy

That “musical philosophy” or the philosophy of music has come to mean the thinking about predominantly western classical music within the analytic tradition from the past few decades shows just how low the status of music as an object of thought has fallen in the west. Perhaps a steady decline since the time of Pythagoras. Can we even say that Pythagoras is the initiator of the decline?

Involved in recognizing the steady pitches of Greek music’s relationship to simple integer ratios was a forgetting of the infinite sonic complexity of our world.