A Philosopher’s Rallying Cry For The Greatness Of Traditional Classical Music

He pursues height and depth at the expense of breadth and fine-grained texture, qualities which can only be found if one lowers one’s gaze, and deigns to look at music’s everyday reality, amid the muddle of ordinary human life—and beyond the west, to music in the wider world. That stance is more and more the stance of musicology nowadays, but Roger Scruton wants nothing to do with it.

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