Musica Incognita: Seven Impractical Arguments

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The term ‘impossible music’ is implying an unattainable poetry. In this essay the author chooses to argue that poetry is itself a quest of the unattainable. The seven points made are, successively, that impossible music never had a point; that music is to do with the manner in which we invent sounds and not the invention itself; that mechanical sounds are not musical because they can be ‘known’; that music is not necessarily produced, pronounced and heard; that music cannot be an experiment because it is a ritual; that music is a myth, not an allegory; and finally that music can only be impossible.View full textDownload full textKeywordsImpossible Music, Narrenschiff, Free Ritual, Music and Language, Inconceivable Music, Unknown MusicRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2010.587319