RT Dissertation/Thesis
T1 Rule and Improvisation. An Ontology of Music
A1 Seoane Rodríguez, Pablo
K1 Musical work
K1 ontology
K1 deflationism
K1 improvisation
K1 implicit rule
AB This dissertation argues (1) that musical improvisation is any performer’s real-time handling of thatexcess of musical properties not encoded by any set of instructions, nor foreseeable by the performerherself, that we find in any performance; (2) that, hence, every musical performance is improvisatory ina lesser or greater degree; (3) that every performance stems from a (not necessarily textual) set of instructions,as long as no musical occurrence takes place ex nihilo or in an alleged normative void; (4)that there can be no musical work detached or independent from a performance, by virtue of what I’vecalled the minimum sensorial requirement; and (5) that a form of Carnapian deflationism is the bestontological strategy to address mind-dependent, cultural entities such as musical works. As a consequenceof the above, (6) a musical work should be considered an unrepeatable, improvisatory and hybridentity, a physical/normative object (understood in a deflationary, non-realist fashion), the aggregationof a set of instructions (a particular abstract artefact) and a performance (a concrete object).
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30489
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/30489
LA eng
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026