Plato en Beethoven

Referentie:

Bent, Ian, "Plato-Beethoven: a hermeneutics for nineteenth-century music?", in: Bent, Ian (ed.), Music theory in the age of Romanticism, UK: Biddles Short Run Books, 1999, transferred to digital printing, p. 105-124 (oorspronkelijke uitgave: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

 

Plaatskenmerk:

UA-CST T&L 78 J 19 BENT 99

 

Extract:

"The very adoption of the hermeneutic method may itself have been a rhetorical device, a means of saying implicitly that Beethoven's (5th) symphony needed no more defense or justification than did Plato's Dialogues - that while interpretation might reveal a clear structure beneath the complex and baffling surface, the work was already as unassailable as that masterpiece from the fourth century BC." (p. 124)