Movement in Music. An Enactive Account of the Dynamic Qualities of Music

  • Francesca Forlè Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
Keywords: music, enactive account, dynamic qualities

Abstract

In this paper I shall attempt to give an enactive account of the dynamic qualities of music. Starting from Krueger’s account of musical experience, I will highlight how music’s qualities of movement are constituted in the horizon of an embodied consciousness – that is, an embodied subject who can virtually or actually bodily entrain with music and then follow the musical profile. I will argue that the common rythmòs-structure of both music and movement makes such an enactive constitution possible. In this sense, the perception of music’s rythmòs – that is, the perception of its teleological tendency – will turn out to be the condition of possibility for the enaction of music dynamic qualities. But if so, music’s quality of being teleologically-structured will remain unexplained by the discussed enactive account and will need another description of how it is constituted in the horizon of consciousness.

Published
2016-12-01
How to Cite
Forlè, F. (2016). Movement in Music. An Enactive Account of the Dynamic Qualities of Music. HUMANA.MENTE Journal of Philosophical Studies, 9(31), 169-185. Retrieved from https://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/50