Musical materialism and the inheritance problem

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Analysis 72 (2):252-259 (2012)
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Some hold that musical works are fusions of, or coincide with, their performances. But if performances contain wrong notes, won't works inherit that property? We say ‘no’

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Joshua Spencer
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Chris Tillman
University of Manitoba

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