Harmonia Mundi Analysis

Harmonia Mundi is a chapter that speaks to how music has changed throughout history, how it continues to change through new ideas, and views on what defines music. It shows that as our understanding of music changes, the way we listen to and view music changes as well. The chapter is broken down into 5 main sections each highlighting a certain point or view one music. The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a single sound from God. The Bible says “in the beginning was the Word,” now we don’t know if this was truly a word or more of a “celestial vibration” but regardless, it could even apply to the secular view of the Big Bang. After the sound that that is sad to have begun the world the next record of music wasn’t …show more content…
McLuhan stated that in visual culture “an image is in one very specific fixed spot: it’s in front of you. It isn’t everything at once.” Visual culture can sometimes give off the sense of bombarding our senses, taking precedence over our auditory sense simply because it overwhelms it. Acoustic is much more centered on the essence of a piece, hearing what is happening all around you, and focusing more on the emotions that you are feeling than the visual its providing. One man that was very influential in acoustic culture was John Cage, he started a resurgence of bringing sounds that make you feel like you’re somewhere else into his music, for example car horns, and other busy street sounds. Another interesting musician was Bing Muscio, the creator of Musak, music he said that was created to be heard but not listened