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Another City

A Journal of Orthodox Culture

More articles by Robert R. Reilly

Is Music Sacred?

March 5, 2019 / Robert R. Reilly

Pythagorean Harp

If there is no pre-existing, intelligible order to go out to and apprehend, and to search through for what lies beyond it – which is the Creator – what then is music supposed to express? If external order does not exist, then music collapses in on itself and degenerates into an obsession with techniques. Any ordering of things, musical or otherwise, becomes purely … [Read more...] about Is Music Sacred?

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