Abstract
AbstractThis chapter presents a brief taxonomy of “others,” both human and nonhuman, that one encounters through music. Human others that populate the musical experience include performers and co-performers, audience members and listeners (or witnesses), composers, and conductors. Nonhuman others include musical instruments and the musical work itself. While the subsequent chapters explore the human relationships with and between performers and witnesses in far greater depth, this opening chapter spends some time addressing the significance of our connections to musical instruments, the ontological status of the musical work, and the presence and absence of the composer when we experience these musical works.
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