TY - JOUR
T1 - After Beethoven, After Hegel: Legacies of Selfhood in Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4
AU - Wilson, Samuel
N1 - Wilson, Samuel. "After Beethoven, After Hegel: Legacies of Selfhood in Schnittke's String Quartet No. 4.." International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music 45, 2 (2014), 311-334.
PY - 2014/12
Y1 - 2014/12
N2 - Music can articulate ideas of selfhood, as is often illustrated with regard to the 'Heroic' works of Beethoven, and the relationship found between Beethoven's music and Hegel's philosophy. Alfred Schnittke confronts this tradition in aspects of his String Quartet No. 4 (1989), a work that highlights contemporary music's subtle and complex relationship with the entangled histories of both music and philosophy. In the second movement of his quartet, figures of musical closure, as metonymie symbols of musical and subjective self-coherence, are taken as a discursive starting point, as images of an objectified self. Contradictions within this symbolic presentation of selfhood are then opened up dialectically. In so doing, a critical exploration of self-understanding -of its process, reifications, and paradoxes -is performed musically.
AB - Music can articulate ideas of selfhood, as is often illustrated with regard to the 'Heroic' works of Beethoven, and the relationship found between Beethoven's music and Hegel's philosophy. Alfred Schnittke confronts this tradition in aspects of his String Quartet No. 4 (1989), a work that highlights contemporary music's subtle and complex relationship with the entangled histories of both music and philosophy. In the second movement of his quartet, figures of musical closure, as metonymie symbols of musical and subjective self-coherence, are taken as a discursive starting point, as images of an objectified self. Contradictions within this symbolic presentation of selfhood are then opened up dialectically. In so doing, a critical exploration of self-understanding -of its process, reifications, and paradoxes -is performed musically.
M3 - Article
SN - 0351-5796
VL - 45
SP - 311
EP - 334
JO - International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
JF - International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
IS - 2
ER -