A CiRCE Institute Partner Feature

released 8/14/2024

Can music express meaning without words? In a lecture for the CiRCE Institute, Ken Myers explains the ancient classical and Christian view that music embodies an order and forms that correspond to the whole of created reality, in its transcendence and materiality. Contrary to the modern belief that music is a-rational — an instinctual experience for the body but not necessarily for the mind — Myers argues that the very forms of music express the intelligibility and meaningfulness of Creation. Form and content cannot be separated; together they make up the essence of a thing — a comprehensible thing created by God. The title of the lecture was “Form, Formation, and Freedom: Education and Entering the Totality of the Real.”

This lecture is provided courtesy of the Society for Classical Learning. 

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