Conclusion: Music and Our Lives

Of all the arts, music is the least concrete. For this reason it was always more difficult to connect it with the rest of our lives and clearly reason about its nature and purpose. All we know for certain about this art is that we receive it by ears; the rest remains mysterious. The following sections will not try to remove any of that mystery; we will just talk a little about the place of music, and modern music in particular, in our lives.