Author: David Whitwell

Dolphins delight infinitely in music; they love it, and if any man sings or plays as he sails along in fair weather, they will quietly swim by the side of the s...

The descriptions of singing birds found in early literature are by far the most frequently mentioned animal with respect to music. The range of birds and their ...

To thee, the heaven and its stars make music,Sun and moon sing praises to thee,The whole earth is making music for thee. “Hymn to Hathor,” a dual Egyptian god o...

Music is invisible dance, as dancing is silent music. Jean Paul Richter, “Levana,” 1807 One might suppose that the early discussions of the movement found...

Infants before age one can distinguish whether particular chords contain a wrong note. Research by Trehub, University of Toronto Infants two days old demonstrat...

In a previous essay the reader noticed that Pythagoras was given credit by a number of later philosophers for originating the notion of the Music of the Spheres...

The Art of CommunicationThe Music Performer and the Orator Music is oratory in tones, and the ancient orators gleaned their best rules from music. Johann Matthe...

Music is the daughter of Arithmetic. Anonymous, “Scholia enchiriadis” (c. 900 AD) Reading the above quotation, perhaps it should be no surprise that much ...

Musica speculativa vs Musica practica How would you define love? We beg the reader’s indulgence to consider which of the two following definitions seems more to...

Music is a form of beauty. Music Educators National Conference (1991) Anyone who still hasn’t got past the stage of the beauty of music knows nothing about musi...