Benjamin Boretz Quote

The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving or conceiving—that, in fact, the only real music 'theory' IS the creative-intellectual transaction which ontologizes music itself.


from Meta-Variations: studies in the foundations of musical thought Red Hook, N.Y. : Open Space, 1995.


The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving...

The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving...

The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving...

The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving...