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Philosophers of music and music theorists go their separate ways, sometimes disdainfully, ignoring the fact that they occupy common semantic ground: they both speak natural language. This fact acquires remarkable significance in light of the widespread interest in semantics of natural language on the part of scholars in a variety of subject-fields. For as the field of semantics has generally advanced over the last century, the semantics of music scholarship (philosophy, theory, musicology, composition, aesthetics, and pedagogy) has not kept pace. It is possible to identify semantic errors widespread in the discourse of music scholarship that would be unacceptable in the scholarly literature on semantics, notably 1) a profound error in exemplification that renders generalizations about musical expression invalid, and 2) a profound error in extensional identity that renders knowledge claims about music incoherent. This semantic confusion has been unwittingly compounded as music scholarship has, over the past several decades, moved away from a Eurocentric perspective in attempting to define fundamental concepts true of the entire world's music. Multi-culturalists and traditionalists a

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Author

Robert B. Cantrick

Published

2008

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Arts