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This chapter deals with an ontological orientation in the subject of music. It was already contended in chapter 1 that music is communication, has meaning and mediates on the physical level between its mental and psychological levels. Such an orientation is topographic in nature since it offers a number of ontological “dimensions” and “coordinates” to profile musicological discourse and helps avoiding misplaced or blurred arguments. The topography involves three mutually independent dimensions: communication, reality, and semiosis. The local nature of this orientation scheme is discussed.
Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden Wie Wege sind, and wie der Berge Gränzen. Was wir bier sind, kann dort ein Gott ergänzen Mit Harmonien and ewigem Lohn and Frieden.
Friedrich Hölderlin: Die Linien des Lebens… (1843) [469]
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Mazzola, G. (2002). Topography. In: The Topos of Music. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8141-8_2
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