From the Necessary to the Useless
Starting from the impossible question “what is music?”, the paper attempts to circumscribe its meaning through different epistemological strategies: historical, empirical, objective. An attempt is made to reflect on the character of intangibility and sensoriality of musical experience that reveals...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UNICApress
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Critical Hermeneutics |
| Online Access: | https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/ecch/article/view/6104 |
| Summary: | Starting from the impossible question “what is music?”, the paper attempts to circumscribe its meaning through different epistemological strategies: historical, empirical, objective. An attempt is made to reflect on the character of intangibility and sensoriality of musical experience that reveals its antinomic essence. Musical experience appears stretched between ineffable and exact, useless and necessary. The second part of the work is dedicated to the observation of the music phenomenon through the neuroscientific perspective.
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| ISSN: | 2533-1825 |