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Abstract. A behavioural variant of musicology is postulated, located among the behavioural sciences, and shown to provide an important epistemological foundation not only for historical musicology, but specifically also for sociomusicology. A general model of the musical communication situation is presented, using notably David Lewis' theory of convention and the analysis of music listening contained in the present author's 1978. Appended is a comment on Otto E. Laske's 1977, which gives rise to some discussions on psychomusicological matters.
Abstract. A number of different approaches to analysis are reviewed and compared as to their status with respect to the scientificity some of them lay claim to. Moreover, a plea is made for a branch of musicology that would be not only empirical in the weak sense of "taking account of" reality, but also in the stronger sense of incurring risks, of making theoretical predictions, being falsified by the "resistance" of reality, refining itself, and, in this way, giving rise to a new kind of growth in musicological knowledge.
Gedeeltelijk eerder gepubliceerd in Hollands Maandblad in 1983; in 2007 in zijn geheel online uitgegeven. ISBN-10: 90-811496-1-X (pdf); ISBN-13: 978-90-811496-1-7 (pdf)
Abstract. A critical position is taken with respect to the (largely, if not totally) implicit assumptions embodied in the answers to the ownership question that today still determine the legal and financial relations between art users: who exactly can own what, and with what consequences? Most notably, the status of the composer is argued to rest on the highly questionable assumption that the artistic relations between musicians have not essentially changed since the 19th century.
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