Introduction

The Introduction contrasts a double tripartite perspectivism on music that is basic to social reflections on music. On the one hand, music as a social phenomenon is always a sublimation of the three segments of the communicative chain—creation, mediation and reception, of On the other hand, music is always a structure, a thing that requires different epistemologies. Music is either The introduction thematises these two socially relevant tripartite perspectives, which inevitably overlap.