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Benjamin Boretz Quotes

born 1934 United States

Benjamin Aaron Boretz (born 3 October 1934) is an American composer and music theorist.

United States
Composers

Also known as: Boretz, Benjamin

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The very being of music is created by cognitive attributions made by individual perceiving or conceiving imaginers, in individual acts of perceiving or conceiving--that, in fact, the only real music 'theory' IS the creative-intellectual transaction which ontologizes music itself.

Even the most, emotive view of music has to be emotive about something distinct, which necessarily involves having a theory about it, for better or worse, in awareness or unawareness, and that a musical something distinct can be cognitively understood as an "emotional experience" only insofar as it is first cognitively understood as a human-communicative manifestation, as an "instance of thought".

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benjamin Boretz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.