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Ontology of Music [SOS–CIA]. L. K. Kam. “Ruddy music lessons…”. Score Object Spatial. Sound Event real imagined Temporal. What/Where is Music?. John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic lyric poet. “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
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Ontology of Music[SOS–CIA] L. K. Kam
Score Object Spatial Sound Event real imagined Temporal What/Where is Music?
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)
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.”
S. O. S. (Phenomena) • Score: Notations • Opus: Work • Sound: Performances
C. I. A. (Personae) • Composers • not Authors • Interpreters • not Performers • Appraisers • not Audiences, Recipients • Amateur/Diletante • Critics/Scholars
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.