ABSTRACT
This chapter combines and extends a music-philosophical discourse of music and ethics and musical ethics’ practical crossroads. It aspires to reflexivity, hence an ethical musicality. The introduction elaborates on ethical musicality as a conceptual framework before reflecting on cultures of musicality. The unfolding of an ethical musicality divides into five parts. The first two segments focus on the body, relationship, time, and space. Following these fundamental existentials, the text expands our lifeworld, embracing different cultures of ethical musicality, including context, involvement, power, responsibility, sustainability, and hope. The chapter illustrates an ethical musicality coming with a calling to humanity: a call to surrender, share, act, involve, do good, and care—to become musical humans recognizing that music changes people’s real lives. Hence, an ethical musicality is an invitation and a welcome to commit to such an art form of becoming—offering hope of a ‘good life’.
