EM DEFESA DE UMA ESTÉTICA DA RECEPÇÃO MUSICAL

Abstract

This work aims to transpose to the field of music the issues problematized by Hans Robert Jauss in his aesthetics of reception (as defense of a literary hermeneutics). From the perspective of aesthetics of the musical reception, the analysis models that are constrained to the limits of the sheet music’s text describe only one of the poles in the communicative situation. The limited emphasis just on the syntax of the text ignores that music is not actualized immediately in the consciousness of the listener; the exclusive focus on the syntax of the sheet music is not enough to foreshadow the complexity involved in the dynamics of the musical reception process. Within a musical reception aesthetic, the aesthetic experience does not occur in a one-way street (from the sheet music to the listener); the musical signs only gain meaning and purpose due to the possibility of being actualized by the listener.

 

 

Index Terms - musical-analysis, aesthetic-experience, sheet-music, musical-reception.