Abstract
The thesis that the primary function of art is not political or moral — that art does not have a social mission and would be diminished by being subordinated to such a mission — is greatly strengthened by the observation that music, for some the paradigm art, is at best weakly referential and, for this reason, can hardly serve a moral or political purpose. This brief discussion is intended to demonstrate just how non-referential music is and why, at the same time, we tend to ascribe more precise reference to it than it, intrinsically, has.
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