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Making Sense of Music with Susan McClary

Sound Expertise

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The Power of Music

When he was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles, John Sutter wanted to learn more about music. His advisor told him that trying to figure out how 17th century music works "doesn't make any sense" He spent his time reading Italian treatises and forbidding himself from using tonal tools because those did not work. The power wasn't in theory; it was in actually playing the music.

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