The Transcendent Experience in Music

An interactive meditation on music and daily living (part 2)

In my last essay I wrote about what I learned from the first time I conducted a professional orchestra.

For this essay, I want to turn introspective and show you a concrete example of this in action so you can walk away with a musical feel for what I experienced on that podium.

We are going to experience the reduction of many into one. I try to lay out how this is done in music through listening as self expression.

For this to work, we’re going to look closely at the smallest possible multiplicity, two notes, and experience them as a single thing.