Rousseau racionalista

El problema de la notación musical

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https://doi.org/10.29105/aitias6.11-127

Keywords:

racionalismo, notación musical, historia de la música, estética racionalista, música

Abstract

The present text exposes and analyzes the treatment that Jean-Jacques Rousseau did about the problem of a notation proper to music. Although the case of Rousseau has not amply studied, the problem is classic and still important nowadays in terms of semantics (relation between sign and referent) and practice (for instance for use in solfege). On Rousseau there is a real and rigurous treatment based on an analysis of the field in his times (Part I) for then proposing his own notation more accurate and according to him better representative of the nature of music (Part II). At last (Part III), it is stated an analysis of criticism received by the project of new notation and that would accomplish its subsequent reject in the Academy of Sciences. I conclude with certain ideas that aim to relate Rousseau's statements about musical notation with other of his ideas showing his rationalist vain on this point. 

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Published

2026-01-09

How to Cite

García Torres, R. J. (2026). Rousseau racionalista: El problema de la notación musical. Aitias, Revista De Filosofía Del CEH, 6(11), 123–160. https://doi.org/10.29105/aitias6.11-127