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(2012) Rivista di estetica 50.
The discussion about the uses of the concept “musical object” highlights the difficulties of the project – put forward by Pierre Schaeffer (1966) – of basing its definition on the idea of “objet sonore”. Moreover, the proposal to assimilate the functions of the “objet sonore” to those fulfilled by a “musical work” turns out to be no less problematic. A new definition is proposed: a musical object is a social object resulting from the inscription of perceived sound(s), or of the acoustic event(s)/object(s), in a reference system recognized as “musical” by a group of (minimally) two people.
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Arbo, A. (2012). Che cos'è un "oggetto musicale"?. Rivista di estetica 50, pp. 9-27.
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