If we want to write beautiful music that inspires an individual or his/her society to live up to more of their productive community membership and their unique expression we need a definition of beauty.
Beauty:
What is beauty? Some have said that anguish captured in art and a vision of its resolution is beautiful and that anguish gives beauty its dignity and depth. I’m not sure I agree but maybe. How can we capture anguish in music? We’re not sure. Minor keys, honest lyrics which are a historical narrative? How could we show anguish gives beauty its dignity and depth? We really can only speculate and experiment.
Another definition of beauty says that anything which copies nature is beautiful. But we would amend that to say, anything which functions as nature functions is beautiful. Merely copying the outward form of a termite mound wont be beautiful. But the building in Zimbabwe that copies the cooling function of the mound is profoundly beautiful. Zimbabwe is particularly hot and there is a large high rise office building there modeled after the termite mound which does not require any air-conditioning even in the swealtering summers, just like a termite house and simultaneously conserving the earths’ precious natural resources. How can we copy nature in music? Ocean, river, wind, wave, thunder and animal sounds? I fear this may be copying too much of the outer form and not enough of the inner function. Why do oceans, rivers, wind, waves, thunder and animals sound as they do, when they do, the way they do? These questions are difficult to answer?
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