A Formata o da Audi o (A inscri o dos modos de escuta musical no campo da tonalidade)

While a kind of activity dedicated to share experiences, the musical expression is submitted to an historical and social framework. The various forms of behavior of the public, promoted and guaranteed by certain socio-technical conditions, constitute a hearing formatting, by fixing collective praxes of listening. At the same time, the existence of an invariant feature (the hegemony of tonal system in western music), places the possiblity that those frames are, in turn, submitted to a tipical attitude, which corresponds to an affective disposition historically overarching.