The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry (Brill Research Perspectives in Art and Law) - Softcover

Alessandro Arbo

 
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Synopsis

The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a social object which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.

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About the Author

Alessandro Arbo, Ph.D. (1997), Turin University (I) is Professor of Music at the University of Strasbourg. He has published monographs and many articles on the aesthetics and philosophy of music, including Entendre comme. Wittgenstein et lesthétique musicale (Hermann, 2013).

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