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In defense of musicology...

that essay is a philosophy work with a slippery title. It is clearly not attempting to make a musicological argument, so the academics in that discipline are safe. To put it in a nutshell, speaking existentially, all knowledge is in "the present" -- even history itself (I'm not saying I believe this, it's just the conceptual argument). The most concise way to reach the end of the logical argument is to state that we all die, and when we die we have no proof that we can recall any of the "present" we experienced or, in fact, that any of it was real. From this perspective, to the author's point, it is not even a question of whether Brahms wrote his First (or any symphony), but whether symphonies/music ever existed at all.

Don't blame me!:-)...philosophy is what it is. This type of Speculative Philosophy isn't babble any more than fictional writing is worthless because it isn't "factual" -- it is a form of intellectualism that could arguably be extended into realms such as religious faith and even science itself. A simple shift in physical reality and all bets are off!:-)


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