Musical Works’ Repeatability, Audibility and Variability: A Dispositional Account

Abstract

This paper is devoted to face recent views in the ontology of music that reject that musical works are repeatable in musical performances. It will be observed that musical works’ repeatability implies that they are audible and variable in their performances. To this extent, the aim here is to show that repeatability, audibility and variability are ontologically substantive features of musical works’ nature. The thesis that will be defended is that repeatability, audibility and variability are dispositional non-aesthetic properties of musical works. The plausibility of the dispositional account of musical works’ repeatability, audibility and variability will lead us to the conclusion that they are ontologically substantive features of musical works’ nature, and consequently, any suitable explanation of the ontology of musical works must not ignore them.

Ovaj rad bavi se recentnim stanovištem u ontologiji muzike koje odriče da se muzička dela ponavljaju u izvođenjima muzike. Pokazaćemo da ponovljivost muzičkih dela podrazumeva da su ona audibilna i varijabilna u svojim izvođenjima. U tom pogledu, naš cilj je da pokažemo da su ponovljivost, audibilnost i varijabilnost ontološki supstancijalne odlike prirode muzičkih dela. Branićemo tezu da su ponovljivost, audibilnost i varijabilnost dispozicionalna i neestetska svojstva muzičkih dela. Plauziblinost dispozicionalnog pristupa ponovljivosti, audibilnosti i varijabilnosti muzičkih dela vodi zaključku da su u pitanju ontološki supstancijalne odlike prirode muzičkih dela, te da ih, posledično, nijedno adekvatno objašnjenje ontologije muzičkih dela ne sme zanemariti.