@article{Oliva_2017, title={Quale paradigma per il ‘linguaggio della musica’? Verso una filosofia del gesto musicale / Which paradigm for the ’language of music’? Towards a philosophy of musical gesture}, volume={11}, url={http://rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/article/view/432}, abstractNote={The aim of this paper is to reflect on the metaphor of ‘musical language’ in order to find a satisfying paradigm for musical expressiveness. First, I will review the idea of music as ‘language of emotions’. Then, I will present some authors from continental tradition, with particular attention to Giorgio Agamben’s reflection on the link between music and <em>Stimmungen</em&gt;, seen as prelinguistic moods which determine the orientation of the human being. I will refuse Agamben’s approache and I will present Wittgenstein’s comparison between musical and linguistic understanding, in which the concept of gesture is central. In conclusion, using Luciano Berio’s and Guerino Mazzola’s reflections on musical gesture, I will propose a gestural paradigm for understanding musical expressiveness. I will indicate in the complexity of musical gesture a synthesis between bodily immediacy and cultural tradition that will help to refuse both the linguistic paradigm, based on the concept of ‘musical meaning’, and the pre-linguistic model of musical expressiveness, which take back to the platonic theory of ethos.}, number={2}, journal={Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio}, author={Oliva, Stefano}, year={2017}, month={Dec.} }