Frithjof Vollmer: Intensive, extensive und epische Zeit, oder: Adorno liest Beethoven скачать в хорошем качестве

Frithjof Vollmer: Intensive, extensive und epische Zeit, oder: Adorno liest Beethoven

Contributions to the online workshop "On the Materialisation of Musical Time Since 1900", September 26th, 2025. 00:57 Presentation 26:06 Discussion *** In his 1938–1966 fragments for a prospective Beethoven book, Theodor W. Adorno sketched a philosophy of (musical) time based on three form types: an “intensive”, an “extensive”, and an “epic” type, each defined by its relation to the motivic process. Taken further, these classes can prove fruitful for the analysis of both notated and performed music—particularly for the analysis of (musical) gesture. This paper seeks to trace the genesis and contradictory stages of Adorno’s typology through a close, diachronic reading, culminating in the view that he neglected the fundamental difference between abstract (notated) and experienced (performed) time. Drawing on historical “Kreutzer Sonata” recordings by Menuhin, Kulenkampff, and Kreisler (1934–36), the survey closes with a distinction between (abstract) form types and (performed) time modes, which may contribute to the debate on “classical” and “romantic” aspects in music as well as to the discussion of “objective” and “subjective” performance practice(s).