Aesthetic Realism and Music
“The question is, If music is real, and if reality is aesthetic, and if aesthetics is only the conscious trying to know what beauty is, are all the things that we see in reality in general in music, and in music as things made beautiful? Aesthetic Realism says definitely yes. There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself too….”
Animate and Inanimate Are in Music and Conscience
“I found that the depths of Aesthetic Realism could be shown in a rather new way through music. And strangely enough, the most modern things in music, the most difficult things, are the most useful there. The fight between structure and emotion, between emotion and music almost as solid geometry, does go on….”
Music & “Questions for Everyone”
Eli Siegel. I thought it would be best today to discuss music in a way that can have it seen as being commented on by and explaining everything else in the world. I had thought of dealing with these “Questions for Everyone” as such. But I think that if one looks at a question and sees, without forcing, that there is a relation of it to music, the question itself will be seen more truly, and so will music….