This essay holds that music is the art of tones, while rejecting the view that music is the universal art of sound; it recognises an emergent non-musical sound art which takes non-tonal sounds as its material. To allow that any sounds can be incorporated into music is not to say that any sounds can constitute music – thus room is left for the conclusion that music makes predominant use of tonal sounds, and increasingly co-exists with a non-musical sound art. This broadly tonal conception of music rests on what I term the objectivity of tone, which several contributors to the present volume seem to question. The article argues that whether a particular sound is musical or tonal is partly an objective matter, independent of how it is experienced by any particular individual. This claim should be understood humanistically and not scientistically – that is, it rests on a humanistic concept of music, and not on an abstract, scientistic standpoint.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:87414 |
| Date | 12 October 2023 |
| Creators | Hamilton, Andy |
| Contributors | Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst |
| Publisher | PFAU-Verlag |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:bookPart, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 06, urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-854215, qucosa:85421 |
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