Chris Bonds in an interesting posting writes,inter alia:

>...  while music doesn't EXPRESS anything it can nevertheless REMIND us
>of things....

Fifteen years ago Sergiu Celibidache, who had studied philosophy before
turning to music, delivered a lecture at the univeristy here in Munich.
The title was Ueber musikalische Phaenomenologie (Cocerning Musical
Phenomenology).  Celi as a speaker, not as a musician, was interestingly
opaque, but in general what phenomenology is about is distinguishing
critically between perceptual realities and abstract realities.  There
are perceptually authentic instances of,say, sorrow;but alongside this
there exists also an authentic universal sorrow.  It's this universal that
endows us with "eidetic intuition." It is by means of this that we know the
essentials of this world.  These essentials then may be drawn on to, say,
express an instance of sorrow in music.  Anyway, that's how a
phenomenologist might see the matter.

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