Overhearing
Peter J. Leithart
September 21, 2009
Category: Music
Collingwood: “The reason why gramophone music is so unsatisfactory to any one accustomed to real music is not because the mechanical reproduction is bad – that would be easily compensated by the hearer’s imagination – but because the performers and the audience are out of touch. The audience is not collaborating; it is only overhearing.”
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