Music and Sculpture

With the introduction, in recent decades, of amplification into Music, there has been the emergence of specialized interest in the shaping of sounds.  This development is not radically unprecedented, just a magnification of and focus upon a process that musical performance has always incorporated, only less attentively so.  This rise has thus brought into greater relief an intimate relation between Music and Sculpture that is typically ignored in traditional Aesthetic Theory classifications, e. g. Nietzsche sharply distinguishes them as 'Dionysian' and 'Apollinian', respectively.  So, since it seems difficult to deny that Sculpture is Apollinian, it seems difficult to maintain, despite Nietzsche's effort, the thesis that Music is an exclusively Dionysian Art.