Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”?
The discussion about the uses of the concept “musical object” highlights the difficulties of the project – put forward by Pierre Schaeffer (1966) – of basing its definition on the idea of “objet sonore”. Moreover, the proposal to assimilate the functions of the “objet sonore” to those fulfilled by a...
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description | The discussion about the uses of the concept “musical object” highlights the difficulties of the project – put forward by Pierre Schaeffer (1966) – of basing its definition on the idea of “objet sonore”. Moreover, the proposal to assimilate the functions of the “objet sonore” to those fulfilled by a “musical work” turns out to be no less problematic. A new definition is proposed: a musical object is a social object resulting from the inscription of perceived sound(s), or of the acoustic event(s)/object(s), in a reference system recognized as “musical” by a group of (minimally) two people. |
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spelling | doaj.art-9bf762a2c1bf416c98f49474b3015c862022-12-22T01:04:52ZengRosenberg & SellierRivista di Estetica0035-62122421-58642012-07-015092710.4000/estetica.1461Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”?Alessandro ArboThe discussion about the uses of the concept “musical object” highlights the difficulties of the project – put forward by Pierre Schaeffer (1966) – of basing its definition on the idea of “objet sonore”. Moreover, the proposal to assimilate the functions of the “objet sonore” to those fulfilled by a “musical work” turns out to be no less problematic. A new definition is proposed: a musical object is a social object resulting from the inscription of perceived sound(s), or of the acoustic event(s)/object(s), in a reference system recognized as “musical” by a group of (minimally) two people.http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1461 |
spellingShingle | Alessandro Arbo Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? Rivista di Estetica |
title | Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? |
title_full | Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? |
title_fullStr | Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? |
title_full_unstemmed | Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? |
title_short | Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”? |
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