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- Title
Why Can Sounds Be Structured As Music?
- Authors
Lango, John W.
- Abstract
When we listen to the performance of a work of music, we hear sounds as musically structured by composer and performers. When we hear sounds -- not only the sounds produced by pitched instruments but also the sounds produced by percussion instruments of indefinite pitch -- we directly hear particular auditory properties. Additionally, and this is a core thesis, we directly hear particular auditory relations. Sounds are bundles of such auditory properties and auditory relations. Because such properties are interrelated by such relations, sounds are intrinsically structured. And, because sounds are thus intrinsically structured, they can be structured as music.
- Subjects
MUSICAL performance; MUSICAL perception; TROPES (Philosophy); QUALIA; MUSICAL aesthetics; MUSIC theory
- Publication
Teorema, 2012, Vol 31, Issue 3, p49
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article