Are musical works sound structures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11993706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vítor Guerreiro (0000-0002-8399-659X, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Filosofia, Porto, Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 36-53 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Filozofija i drustvo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0353-5738 • E-ISSN: 2334-8577 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/fid1901036g |
| OpenAlex | W2921321002 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper is about the dilemma raised against musical ontology by Roger Scruton, in his The Aesthetics of Music: either musical ontology is about certain mind-independent ?things? (sound structures) and so music is left out of the picture, or it is about an ?intentional object? and so its puzzles are susceptible of an arbitrary answer. I argue the dilemma is merely apparent and deny that musical works can be identified with sound structures, whether or not conceived as abstract entities. The general idea is this: both Platonism and nominalism about musical works are a kind of fetishism: musical works are not ?things?, in Danto?s sense of ?mere real things?; they rather involve complex relationships between objects, events, and different kinds of functional properties. For this, I draw on Levinson and Howell?s notion of indication, combined with Searle?s approach to institutional reality... with a little twist of my own
Aesthetics · Art · Dilemma · Epistemology · Fetishism · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Musical analysis · Musical form · Nominalism · Object (grammar · Ontology · Platonism · Sound (geography · Theology · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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