Imagine that you are writing a new school song for Auburn University, and you write down the score carefully so that
future musicians know exactly what notes to play, in what order, and with what instruments. According to Nelson
Goodman's framework of autographic and allographic artworks, why is this score so important?
It helps us differentiate the abstract type (the song you wrote) from tokens of this work the individual performances of the song
that others will perform, e.g., during football halftime shows)
It brings the work into existence, since a work of art cannot exist until it has some kind of physical or perceptible component like a
score
It gives us a way to discuss the artwork and differentiate it from other music that sounds similar, since works of music consist
primarily in sound structures that the artist has indicated to us in a specific context
It provides us with a notational system so that we can make genuine copies of the work through future performances of the song
