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    A performance that departs from the prescribed notes may ... — Carmelics
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    A performance that departs from the prescribed notes may still count as a rendering of the original work by virtue of symbolic reference to and exemplification of that work, even while being ontologically an instance of a distinct work.

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    • 1.Goodman's theory allows symbolic relations—including reference and exemplification—between works.
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    • 2.A performance can refer to and exemplify a work as individuated by its score without itself being an instance of that work.
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    • 3.Ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness are independent properties.
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    • 1.Goodman's own theory treats notational compliance as the constitutive criterion of work-identity, making symbolic reference categorically insufficient for work-membership.
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    • 2.Allowing symbolic reference to substitute for compliance collapses Goodman's strict type-token distinction, which was designed precisely to exclude such intensional relations from ontological criteria.
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    • 3.A theory that permits ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness to do the work of identity conflates the metaphysical question of what a work is with the aesthetic question of what a performance is about.
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    • 1.Exemplification, as Goodman defines it, requires that the exemplifying sample actually possesses the property it refers back to, so a performance cannot exemplify a score-defined work it fails to instantiate.
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    • 2.Davies and Levinson's practice-based accounts establish that performer deviation is judged against community-constituted performance norms, not rescued by symbolic reference, making the symbolic-relation move explanatorily idle.
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    exemplification(Lowe's four-category ontology)
    The relation by which an object possesses an attribute, either occurrently (via an instantiated mode) or dispositionally (via the kind the object instantiates).
    instance(Currie 1989, 5)
    All those concrete things that we come into contact with when we experience a work of art
    ontology/ontologically(as used in aesthetics and metaphysics)
    The study of what kinds of things actually exist; 'ontologically' means in terms of what something fundamentally is. Here it's asking whether a changed performance is actually the same work or a completely different one.
    prescribed(as used in aesthetics)
    Officially required or specified; the 'prescribed notes' are the exact notes a composer wrote down that musicians are supposed to play.
    rendering(as used in aesthetics and art)
    A particular version or performance of something—like how a musician might play a song differently but it's still 'a rendering' of the original song.
    symbolic reference(as used in semiotics and philosophy of language)
    When something points to or stands for something else through meaning or agreement—like how a wedding ring symbolically refers to a marriage commitment.

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    Within the ontology of music, the claim for which the score fully, and solely, individuates the work has received the most attention. Separating ontological from evaluative claims, as seen above, Goodman could not state his stance on the matter more clearly: “the most miserable performance without actual mistakes” counts as an instance of a work, “while the most brilliant performance with one wrong note does not” (1976, 186). Of the two claims, that compliance with a score is necessary for a per
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    Goodman's own theory treats notational compliance as the constitutive criterion ...
    Goodman's theory allows symbolic relations—including reference and exemplificati...
    Ontological distinctness and symbolic relatedness are independent properties.

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