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Doing justice to musical works

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:12 authored by Michael Morris
This paper argues against the view in the ontology of musical works that the relation between musical works and performances of them is the relation between a type and its tokens. I claim that this cannot do justice to the fact that musical works are essentially meaningful, in the sense of essentially being there to be understood. The type-token view risks treating musical works as found objects, and it cannot accommodate the fact that the relation between musical works and performances must be intentional if musical works are essentially meaningful.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Page range

52-78

Pages

27.0

Book title

Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning and Work

Place of publication

Oxford

ISBN

9780199213344

Series

Mind Association Occasional Series

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  • Philosophy Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

K Stock

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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