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1 Ontology of Music [SOS–CIA] L. K. Kam

2 “Ruddy music lessons…”

3 What/Where is Music? Score Object Spatial Sound Event real imagined Temporal

4 John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic lyric poet “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on,— Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone…” (Ode on an Grecian Urn 1819)

5 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French novelist, playwright, and exponent of Existentialism “If the concert hall burns down during a performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, that’s not the end of the symphony.”

6 S. O. S. (Phenomena) Score: Notations Opus: Work Sound: Performances

7 C. I. A. (Personae) Composers not Authors Interpreters not Performers Appraisers not Audiences, Recipients Amateur/Diletante Critics/Scholars

8 Literature Cook, Nicholas. Music: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: OUP, 2000. Clarke, Eric, and Nicholas Cook. Emipirical Musicology: Aims, Methods, Prospects. Oxford: OUP, 2004.


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