Music and intellectual play

July 11, 2011

Next year at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland I’m going to be sharing the teaching of the Teaching Musics of the World module with my colleage Barnaby Brown. I was doing some background reading, having a look at Bonnie C. Wade’s ‘Thinking Musically’, which is one of the overview volumes in OUPs ‘Global Music Series’. This is just an undergrad textbook, but I did stumble upon on a notion which set me thinking, where she discusses ‘intellectual play’: ...