| I read 'Musicking' a few years back and enjoyed it. Small suggests thinking of music as a verb is less of an abstraction than what we currently have. Small speaks of reification as the thing you end up with when the word used to refer to a concept(music, love) takes on a life of it's own as ends up a master and the original concept referred to is secondary. As Kant says, "The thing in itself is no thing." Mahaberio- as for the audiences role in all this, you might enjoy reading Nattiez. He was or is on faculty at Mcgill I think. I could be wrong- Ed can steer you in the right direction.
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Carl |