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As a conclusion to my investigations I wish to discuss two issues that are important to the philosophical notion of a musical work. The first concerns the question of its unity or wholeness, while the second is a matter of its identity, to which I have already referred, and the manner in which this identity can be demonstrated in the multiplicity of its specific performances and our perception of them.
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© 1986 Jean Gabbert Harrell
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Ingarden, R. (1986). The Question of the Unity of a Musical Work. In: Harrell, J.G. (eds) The Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09254-3_8
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