Reading philosophy of music…
Pythagoras (490 BC) believed music embodied mysteries. Stated “all things are numbers,” they come into existence when mathematical order is imposed on all formless stuff in our universe. If one hammer was 1/2 the weight of other, we would get an octave! Musical order and beauty were the result of order, harmony carved out of cacophonous noise. Originated idea of heavenly ‘music of spheres’. Inaudible, made by movements of planets around earth. Pythagoras revealed relationship of music to mathematics and to ancient Greeks mathematics was the closest approach to meaning of the world.
Plato discussed music as a part of training emotions in The Republic (380 BC). Harmonies expressed beauty, courage, temperance. Schelling, a transcendental idealists thought instrumental music was purest of arts, a glimpse into the Absolute. Schopenhauer referred to an inexplicable experience into sensory realms, a feeling of one-ness with something beyond selves. Nietzsche believed in 2 elements of music to be balanced – creative order or organisation and chaotic inspiration or imagination!
Insightful, interesting…