ABSTRACT
With respect to the realm of institutionalised religions and their side effects, as it were, there is, in turn, a pronounced presence of an amalgamation of the quantitative and aesthetic popular with the religious and factional sacred. The tendencies and problems associated with the ineffability of music indicate further that the issue is fundamentally epistemological in nature. In other words, a central question pertains to what counts as knowledge where music is concerned, and how is that knowledge obtainable and transferable. The idea of music as a fundamental human trait or “soundly organized humanity”, nevertheless contradicts the ubiquitous belief in music’s innate powers and autonomy, as does the recurrent emphasis on ingenuity and other forms of exceptional musical individuality. Remembering the principles of soundly organised humanity, one may ease one’s mind, as the humans will music until their world burns.
