Zuckerkandl's "Sound and Symbol"

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This book review examines Zuckerkandl's work entitled "Sound and Symbol." The nature of music is considered, from both the author's viewpoint and the work of Zuckerkadl. Also discussed are the different possible interpretations one has when listening to a piece of music. The paper concludes with how one should approach a piece of music as a listener, and the proper use of music therapy.

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"Music therapy has the implications of being quite significant. However, I see there being a few problems in the structure of the theory. If it is so possible for there to be so many different interpretations in music, then it is only fair to say what music would work in therapy. Zuckerkandl also refers to how psychology and music are so far apart from each other; he reports that they look at the physical word from different points of view. Considering this allows one to see that here in itself is a flaw in the whole ideology of it all. How can you use something in a field for which you feel there is no significant, or correlation? There has to be a way to bring the two ideals together to make one working "machine." There also needs to be a clear understanding of the significance of music in therapy and how the effects of music can be used to benefit a "living organism." "

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