Ep. 292: Langer on Symbolic Music (Part One)

Apr 25, 2022, 03:49 AM

On Susanne Langer's Philosophy in a New Key (1942), ch. 8-10. Is music (the supposedly non-representational artform) a language? If it's "expressive," what exactly does it express?

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