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The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry

The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry

Arbo, Alessandro

Paperback

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

General Art InstructionGeneral LawGeneral Music

ISBN10: 9004462767
ISBN13: 9789004462762
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
What do we mean when we talk about the identity of a musical work and what does such an identity involve? What in fact are the properties that make it something worth protecting and preserving? These issues are not only of legal relevance; they are central to a philosophical discipline that has seen considerable advances over the last few decades: musical ontology. Taking into account its main theoretical models, this essay argues that an understanding of the ontological status of musical works should acknowledge the irreducible ambivalence of music as an art of the trace and as a performative art. It advocates a theory of the musical work as a social object and, more specifically, as a sound artefact that functions aesthetically and which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is further explored in relation to three primary ways of conceiving and fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.

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