The phrase “musical language” is synchronically/diachronically widespread and universally applied to music, and the issue embedded in it is a typically cultural-musical issue that belongs - by definition and par excellence - to the “broad field of cultural musicology” . Its definition as cultural-musical presupposes that such an issue is musical insofar as it is cultural and viceversa not only because it “is never a question of music alone” (as if “music alone” existed and might be represented in mere technical and specialized terms).
Reggiani, E., Is music a language or does music “speak a language”? Musical languages in historical perspective: a draft preface, <<Musical languages in historical perspective. A sourcebook of readings>>, 2017; 2017 (3): 5-13 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/122256]
Is music a language or does music “speak a language”? Musical languages in historical perspective: a draft preface
Reggiani, EnricoPrimo
2017
Abstract
The phrase “musical language” is synchronically/diachronically widespread and universally applied to music, and the issue embedded in it is a typically cultural-musical issue that belongs - by definition and par excellence - to the “broad field of cultural musicology” . Its definition as cultural-musical presupposes that such an issue is musical insofar as it is cultural and viceversa not only because it “is never a question of music alone” (as if “music alone” existed and might be represented in mere technical and specialized terms).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.