Musical listening in digital age
Musical listening in digital age

Summary/Abstract: The ear (listening) also has a history, which is, perhaps, less interesting than the musical work, its author or the orchestra, but is a very important element of musical communication. For those who listen to music, it is not something fixed in a score, it is therefore not a scriptural fact, it is not like a recorded record or a programme, but like an ‘uncertain event’, an extemporaneous fact that can come to us through musical instruments. The music listener is also a historical product of music, which has always been listened to either functionally or as an accompaniment to other social events. Music is a temporal art that does not develop in space, it is not based on simultaneity but on succession. Music must be listened to with concentration, with our mental auditory means focused towards a full reception of the music. Nowadays, in the presence of the revolution caused by the exponential growth of digital media and the Internet, there is still no scholar who feels the need or has the ability to reflect on how much today's technologies have changed our relationship with music.

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