The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik — John Shaqi
The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's AesthetikHegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Philosophy
The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Aesthetics
(_β_) Music further removed from sculpture than painting. This is
not merely due to the greater ideality of latter, but also to its
treatment of its medium. The unity realized by a musical composition
of a different kind to that realized by the plastic arts. In the
former case subject to the condition of a time-series
(_γ_) Most nearly related to poetry. Employ the same medium of tone.
Poetry possible without speech-utterance. Ideal objectivity of poetry
as contrasted with the independence of musical tone as the sensuous
medium of music. Music as an accompaniment of the voice]
(_b_) Musical grasp and expression of Content
[(_α_) Primarily must not minister to sense-perception. Must
make soul-life intelligible to soul. This abstract inwardness
differentiated in human feeling, of every description
(_β_) Natural interjections not music. They are the point of
departure. To music belongs intelligible structure, a totality of
differences capable of union and disunion in concords, discords,
oppositions and transitions. The nature of its relation to positive
ideas]
(_c_) Effect of music
[(_α_) The evanescent character of the objectivity of music. It
seizes on conscious life where it is not confronted with an object.
Its effect due to an elementary force. Appeal to man as a particular
person. The soul made aware of its association with Time. Analysis of
the notion of Time
(_β_) Must also possess a content. Orpheus. Incentive to martial
ardour and enthusiasm
(_γ_) Necessity of repeated reproduction. Personal relation of the
executive artist to the same. Excess of this influence]
2. The particular definition of the means of expression in music
(_a_) Time-measure, beat, and rhythm
[The relation of Time to the fundamental principle of subjective
life. Time-measure prevents the series being indefinite and devoid of
content, and further regulates by intelligible division the nature of
its advance. Time-beat possesses the same function as the principle
of symmetry in architecture. Coordinates a fortuitous variety.
Distinct kinds of time-measure. Rhythm gives vital significance to the
time-measure and beat. The accent. The rhythm of melody. The analogous
example of verse. Handelian music]
(_b_) Harmony
[(_α_) Difference of sound through different instruments of music.
Artificially made. Instruments which possess an oscillating column
of air, or a stretched string of gut or metal which vibrates. The
kettledrum and harmonica. The human voice. Can be employed in
separation or combination
(_β_)Tone in its own essential definition. The constitution of harmony
as such. The theory of intervals. The scales and keys. Numerical
relations of tones and their pitch. Accordant and discordant tones.
The octave and other intervals
(_γ_) The system of chords. The triad. Dissonant chords of the seventh
and ninth. The resolution of a dissonance. Transitions and modulations
of harmony]
(_c_) Melody
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