How to Learn to Appreciate Music

How to Learn to Appreciate Music
Members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra perform “The Blue Danube” waltz as it is transmitted into deep space towards Voyager 1, in Vienna, Austria, on May 31, 2025. AP Photo/Denes Erdos
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In school as a kid, we had classes called Music Appreciation. I’m pretty sure such classes have been around for many decades and extend from the youngest grades to college. They are designed to give students a working knowledge of the history of music. They invariably end up valorizing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and probably Bernstein. The goal was to get us to like them.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]