Musical Orality and Technology. Musical Orality and Technology Denaturing the Score As a Way of Thinking Music

Authors

  • Joaquín Blas Pérez Laboratorio para el Estudio de la Experiencia Musical. Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e040

Keywords:

Orality, technology, music, musical notation, digital orality

Abstract

The need for new epistemologies for the study of music is frequently pointed out, especially in reference to musical practices that do not use or partially use notation. It is proposed here to think about music within the framework of an expanded idea of orality as a counterpart to the habitual understanding based on writing. Attending to musical orality practices that transcend what we can objectify in the score leads us to focus our analysis on performance and social interaction as spaces for the construction of meaning. We intend to reflect on the idea of score as technology, and later on the role of recording technologies and digital technology in that they configure different forms of musical orality.

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2019-11-21

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Pérez, J. B. (2019). Musical Orality and Technology. Musical Orality and Technology Denaturing the Score As a Way of Thinking Music. Arte E Investigación, (16), e040. https://doi.org/10.24215/24691488e040

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No. 16 (2019): Arte e Investigación 16

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