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If we compel the composer to write in terms of what the listener is able to hear, we flirt with the danger of freezing the evolution of musical language, whose progressive development comes about through transgressions of a given era's perceptual habits."

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Jean-Jacques Nattiez

Born: December 30, 1945 (age 79)

Bio: Jean-Jacques Nattiez is a musical semiologist or semiotician and professor of Musicology at the Université de Montréal. He studied semiology with Georges Mounin and Jean Molino and music semiology with Nicolas Ruwet.

Known for:

Music and Discourse (1990)
Wagner Androgyne (1990)
Proust as musician (1989)
The Battle of Chronos and Orpheus (2003)
Proust musicien (1984)

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