Abstract

Alberto Martinengo, Giovanni Matteucci and Silvia Vizzardelli discuss Alessandro Bertinetto's Il pensiero dei suoni (The Thought of Sounds). After presenting the book's main theses, the authors critically examine Bertinetto's approach to philosophy of music. Martinengo focuses on the phenomena of musical improvisation and on their compatibility with debates in Continental aesthetics. Matteucci retraces the role of aesthetic experience in the theoretical discussion around music. Vizzardelli places Bertinetto's perspective within the most recent issues in analytic aesthetics and offers a critical response.