Music
The history of Western music involves a transition from music understood as reflecting the harmony of the cosmos to the industrial production of desegregated sounds. From classical antiquity until the sixteenth century, music was a way to cultivate the senses for the good of a specific ethos. Politicians and physicians still talked about music when they searched for the right mixture of powers in politics or the right mixture of bodily humors in medicine. But with the demise of cosmological harmony manifested in Pythagorean proportionality, music became the disembedded art of sound production. Since the nineteenth century, modern music has been influenced substantially by scientific progress and its technological fallout. The technogenic production of sound reflects the disappearance of the traditional deep ethical relevance of music.
Music and Ethics
From ancient times to the sixteenth century, philosophers, musicians, physicians, and politicians understood music as an art intimately associated with ethics. In Greece as in other cultures, music and dance were significant threads in the fabric of every day life. Hymns were sung to praise and address the gods of its ethos. Outside religious rituals, music accompanied weddings, funerals, harvests and wars: Most social occasions not only had their own time but also were marked by their own musical instruments and modes.
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