Limits of sound - Limits of notation
Limits of sound - Limits of notation

Summary/Abstract: Music is a complex phenomenon that is not only reducible to sound; the notation preserves the memory of musical work, the virtuality of its indefinite reiteration in time. The musical text prefigures the action of the formation of the musical work in a global manner, without circumscribing it. We will see to what extent the denotative, i.e., quantitative aspect of the musical sign supposes a number of subjective qualities. They refer to the behaviour, the global expression, to the personalization of musical communication, in which ponderables and imponderables are involved. Alongside with the so-called “materiality” of such components, as sounds and silence, both underlain by duration and objectifiable to a certain extent, in the act of musical communication, there are forces and experiences that are telepathically transmitted, in intersubjective ways. The awareness, and especially the explanation concerning them remain an open problem, and every score will solve it in its own way. There is a perpetual dialectic between the relativity of the signs proposed by the musical text, and the absolute of the performance, of its projection in time. Therefore, any musical text appears to us as a metaphor of a continuous work, in indefinite progress, as a matrix for unique solutions.

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