Music and Art

Good music has something in it that I can recognize from myself but haven’t been able to put into words before. – Jonas of Mew

All good art should have some sort of this quality, this essence of “a mystery solved,” some sort of answer to a riddle, some sort of assurance amid the uncertainty of the world.
This meshes with L’Engle’s idea of art as “cosmos in chaos.” Art acknowledges the mystery, acknowledges the chaos and the uncertainty, and then, as Jonas says, gives some sort of answer, or, when it can’t do that, makes some sort of sense of it. It says, “here’s the sense, here’s the reason, here’s the way to understand the mystery inside you, or the mystery that’s leaving you bewildered," or when it can't do that, “here you are, here is your mystery, here is your confusion and the confusion of your splinter of life, and here it is in the glorious cosmos, here’s where your piece fits, here’s where your mystery belongs." Yet, at the same time, it doesn’t say that, it doesn’t say that, and that’s why we can listen. That’s why we can have ears to hear.