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Benson on the Elusive “Work Itself”
0 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen August 14th, 2006 in MusicContinuing his discussion of the “ergon within the energia,” Benson introduces Ingarden’s position. Ingarden’s fundamental assumption is that there is an essential (not simply an accidental) separation between a work and its written and aural expressions (The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue, p. 126). Ingarden is concerned to preserve a kind of superhistorical ergon that remains [...]


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