The spirit and the letter of music

Authors

  • Matjaž Barbo University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd05.1.04

Keywords:

aesthetics of music, musical hermeneutics, semiotics of music, work-concept

Abstract

The 19th century emphasised the opposition between musical text and its performance. It seems that in the contrast between the unseizable spirit common to all arts and the letter of musical text the old oppositions can be seen, deepened even more with the historical progress of the accentuation of the individualisation of musical work. The aesthetic normatives of musical work have put into force the apparent concept of self-regulative autonomy, which, however, demonstrates that music has perhaps never actually rejected an external referential system.

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Published

2015-06-20

How to Cite

Barbo, M. (2015). The spirit and the letter of music. De Musica Disserenda, 5(1), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd05.1.04

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Articles

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