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Confession here, I have no musical ability . Can’t sing a tune, keep a beat, read a note, or play an instrument. Ok, I exaggerate a little, but not much. So my uninformed answer the the question of whether music is a universal language before watching the following video is “no,” very much expecting to be told otherwise. But strangely enough, it turned out that I was right, although for reasons that get into things I didn’t even know exist. Musicphiles will likely get a lot more out of the discussion than I did ;)
However, musical ignoramus that I am, I still know what I like, and I loved the snippet of the Byzantine music that plays at about the 6 minute mark. I found the video for that performance and also included it below.
From Sideways:
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