1 février 2020
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Alessandro Arbo, « Note per la storia dell’estetica musicale », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.oon490
This article explores possible ways of conceiving the history of musical aes- thetics. The debate related to the notions of consonance and dissonance is used as an example to emphasise the necessity of taking into account and compare different sources and theoretical paradigms (from mathematics to physics, from music theory to acoustics, from perception theory to the history of ideas). The article also underlines the opportunity to base the historical reconstruction not only on solid contextual knowledge, but also on a reflection informed by a philosophical approach. The latter is necessary to face the the- oretical problems identified in the sources.