Autonomous music

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The term autonomous music was formed around 1930 to denote an artistic mode of production that was not bound to external purposes, but solely based on itself. The autonomy of the work of art has been discussed as a music-aesthetic term since around 1925 . The distinction between aesthetic autonomy and the social function of music led in the 1950s to the contrast between autonomous music and functional music .

In musicology , discussions have been and continue to be held about how one can distinguish functional (or also functional) music from autonomous music. This demarcation usually takes place in that autonomous music is created and reproduced for its own sake, and is thus to be regarded as artificially independent and thus of higher quality, while functional music initially serves a purpose and is therefore to be counted as non-artificial music. The parallels to the discussion about serious and popular music are obvious. In the field of serious music, there is a corresponding distinction between absolute music and program music .

In English there is the corresponding term of autonomous music , in Italian musica autonoma , in Russian автономная музыка . In contrast, a corresponding expression does not seem to be in use in French.

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