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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Main Author: Alessandro Arbo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Rosenberg & Sellier 2012-07-01
Series:Rivista di Estetica
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/1461
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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
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title Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”?
title_full Che cos’è un “oggetto musicale”?
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