Apt for Voices or Viols

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, , language: English, abstract: “…music grew too proud to be the garment of words.” (W.B. Yeats) This, by a poet who was, allegedly, tone deaf, is nevertheless a concise but very astute summing up of what has happened to music since about the end of the 16th century. Yeats’ definition of music as “the garment” of words suggest...