Philosophy 1020 Lecture 1: Lecture 05/01/2016 (Winter)
16 Feb 2016
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A piece of music is not a physical thing, and thus is not constrained by space. To start: it does not seem to be a material thing, But material things are usually involved: a score, instruments, musicians, and physical processes that produce the experience of sound, etc. One common thought: a piece is somehow essentially connected to a score. Problems with connecting music and score: unwritten songs. 2: musique concrete and sampling improvised musics. First, a distinction between music and e. g. painting. Music is allographic: we cannot make sense of the distinction between the original and the forgery of a piece of music (of the piece that is, no e,g, the handwritten score) Painting, by contract, is autographic: paintings can be forged. Second, in the case of music, that theoretically decisive test is provided by a score. So, a piece of music is somehow essentially tied to something like a score.
