“A great variety of spirits come to us on the wings of music,
Into the deepest recesses of the soul.
They come to places where the light of reason has never shone.
They come gliding past the gatekeeper, Reason,
The censor and judge which patrols the soul’s borders.”
-Peter Kreeft
Have you ever asked someone or been asked, “What are you listening to?” Has it ever been phrased, “What is that noise?” To one person, the best description for another person’s music may very well sometimes be ‘noise’. The phrase “to each his own” is usually used to calm such qualms, as such disagreements are often a simple difference of opinion (subjectivity); but what if there was also an objective side to this? Could it be that there is a concrete (though perhaps not always clear) distinction between that which is truly music, and that which is simply noise packaged as music?
