Download or read book The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry written by Alessandro Arbo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay advocates a theory of the musical work as a “social object” which is based on a trace informed by a normative value. Such a normativity is explored in relation to three ways of fixing the trace: orality, notation and phonography.