Making Sense of Music with Susan McClary
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How to Make Sense of Music
When I realized that I don't understand a kind of music, I will just play it until I think that I have made some kind of sense of it. The only other time I ever did anything like that deep dive into losing my ability to speak was when I decided that I really needed to come to terms with 17th century French music which didn't make any sense to me at all. Once you start playing it and hearing it that way, then suddenly it's so rich and it's so unlike any other kind of baroque music. It is based on a completely different set of priorities.
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