Listening as the Work of Co-Composing:

For the work of listening can be understood as a collaboration with the musical work itself, and in this sense for Adorno listening, as will be discussed below, is an activity of co-composing or reconstituting the music. Certainly Adorno’s dialectical philosophical approach is at great variance wit...

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Main Author:	Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto 2017-03-01
Series:	Artefilosofia
Subjects:	Adorno new music structural listening
Online Access:	https://www.periodicos.ufop.br/raf/article/view/427

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