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The Instrumentality of Music

2008; Oxford University Press; Volume: 66; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1540-594x.2008.00286.x

1540-6245

Philip Alperson,

Musicology and Musical Analysis

Imagine that you were fortunate enough to have been in the sound room of the HMV recording studio in London in the 1930s for the legendary performances by Pablo Casals of Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. You look through the soundproof glass and you see a man, transfixed, concentrating on his music as he plays his musical instrument. You see Pablo Casals with his cello. What could be clearer than this? The picture of a musician playing his or her musical instrument seems to be at the foundation of what we mean