Talk about Music: From Wolterstorffian Ambiguity to Generics

Abstract

The main aim of this essay is that of defending springboard for denial of what Richard a certain analysis of sentences that play a central Wollheim called the physical object hypothe role in our discourse about music, such as sis: works of music are not physical objects or events, at least in sense that they are not (1) Aida ends pianissimo sort of things that bear straightforward, direct, causal interactions with denizens of physical or world. . ... , , This conclusion and related hypothesis that (2) Pierrot Lunaire begins on A natural.1 • ■ ■ • . v ' musical works are in some sense abstract entities