The Birth of Tragedy - 3 - Music is the Ultimate Art Form

Part ThreeQuoteWhile the critic held sway ... art degenerated to entertainment ... Never has so much talk, and so little thought, been devoted to art. Notes🔥 Apollo and Dionysus represent two worlds of art. One (Apollo) is individual, the other (Dionysus) collapses the individual. 🔥 Schopenhauer says music is different from all the other arts because it is not a replica of a phenomena. It's not an abstraction. It's a direct replica of the will. 🔥 The world might be said to be "embodied music." 🔥 You can't use music to imitate concepts, or else "music does not express the inner essence." Music and imagery can be powerful, but only when music serves as the foundation. 🔥 When music is subjugated to mere "tone-painting", it loses its power to connect to the eternal truth. 🔥 "Science and theoretical man" (ie Socrates) hold that nature can be subjugated by knowledge and understanding. But this will hit a limit, and that will lead to destruction and chaos. 🔥 Opera is an example of when words…