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."


Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (ed. Princeton University Press, 1990) - ISBN: 9780691027142

Jean-Jacques Nattiez Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...