# Music or The Vocabulary of Music

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Piers Hellawell
- Year: 2002
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/music-or-vocabulary-music)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This year's keynote talk explores the distinction between music itself and its surface vocabulary. Is there such a thing as music? Are some musical styles more, and some less, substantial? If so, is contemporary music any more than an amalgam of stylistic practices? The public's rejection of modernism suggests that content is not enough, or maybe that we can only digest art swathed in pretty wrapping.

## Lectures

1. [Music or The Vocabulary of Music](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/music-or-vocabulary-music/0f87c0d78bac) (YouTube)