The identity of musical works in the web era
The identity of musical works in the web era

Author(s): Alessandro Arbo
Subject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Aesthetics
Published by: Editura ARTES
Keywords: ontology; musical work; recording; normativity;
Summary/Abstract: What is and, more precisely, what does a musical work consist of? In what sense can it coincide with a score or with a performance? How can its identity persist over historical time? Introduced by Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden in the 1920s, these questions have become recurrent in the analytically oriented philosophy of music. To this day, it does not seem easy to find an answer in a framework become more complex because of the generalization of phonographic and video-phonographic recording systems – and of that great recording system that is the Web. This article wonders how it could be appropriate to relaunch this question, focusing on its meaning and theoretical scope from a perspective considering the multiplicity of devices that populate the contemporary musical world.

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