Of Essence and Context by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030144715
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

15. Where Is the Essence of a Musical Work?

Per Dahl1

(1)University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

Per Dahl

Email: [email protected]

Abstract

The essence of music engages the human ability to create symbolic meanings from any impression. In our search for this essence, we must first follow the communicative path of a musical performance. The double ontological status of music as both cognitive activity and observable object makes any transition from cognition to object a reduction from thick to thin entity, and any transition from notated/sounded work to interpretation/musical experience a thickening of the music’s properties. The process of elaborating upon the epistemological elements in this communicative chain positions the essence of the musical work as a discourse on relational dimensions that are culturally contextualized by the idea of a musical work.

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