Recording of a lecture delivered on February 15, 2013, by Annapolis tutor Daniel Harrell as part of the Formal Lecture Series.

Mr. Harrell describes his lecture: "We talk - and think - about music as if it moved, in an elementary and thoroughgoing sense. This is the sense in which we might say, of a rhythm, that it quickens and slows; or of a melody, that it rises and falls; or of a harmony, that it departs and returns. Our talking this way about music has a point. For if we didn't hear music move, would we hear music at all? Without movement, music would seem no more than a succession of sounds. But there is also a problem with our talking this way, despite its point. And it is this problem that I wish to discuss in my lecture, explaining what I take the problem to be, and why I take the problem to be important - even for those of us with little interest in music."