The shell itself: on the relationship between Schopenhauer's philosophy of music and romantic musical thought

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378633790

Keywords:

Música, Romantismo, Tonalidade, Forma

Abstract

One of the main support points of the interpretations that affirm the relationship between Schopenhauer's thought and the romantic movement is his philosophy of music, commonly seen as a philosophical expression of the romantic musical movement. This latter connection, in turn, is usually supported by Schopenhauerian statements about the meaning of music, which would be in agreement with the conceptions of musicians and romantic music thinkers in this regard. The following text will try to approach this theme in another way: instead of considering the meaning that the philosopher attributes to music, I will try to examine the meaning he attributes to the term “music”, that is, I will ask the question about the specific type of musical art that the philosopher has in mind when reflecting on music in his writings. From this examination, I conclude that the link between Schopenhauer's musical thinking and that of romanticism is unsustainable.

Downloads

Author Biography

Márcio Benchimol Barros, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, SP

Doutor em Filosofia pela Unicamp. Professor de Estética e Filosofia da Arte do Departamento de Filosofia da UNESP.

References

SCHOPENHAUER, A. Schopenhauers Sämtliche Werke. Hrsg. von Paul Deussen. München, Piper Verlag, 1911-1926. In: CD-ROM Schopenhauer im Kontext, Werkausgabe I, Berlin, Karsten Worm, 2001.

SCHOPENHAUER, A. O mundo como vontade e como representação I. Trad. Jair Barboza. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2005.

SCHOPENHAUER, A. O mundo como vontade e como representação II. Trad. Jair Barboza. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2015.

FUBINI, E. Estética da música. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2012.

HOFFMANN, E. T. A. Beethovens Instrumentalmusik. In: Kreisleriana. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2010.

HÜBSCHER, A. Der Philosoph der Romantik. In: Schopenhauer-Jahrbücher, 1951-1952.

KÜHN, C. Formenlehre. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2010.

NIETZSCHE, F. Die Geburt der Tragödie. In: Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA), vol.1, edição de Colli e Montinari, Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1978.

PLANTINGA, L. Romantic Music. New York-London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984.

PROD’HOMME, J. G. Les Symphonies de Beethoven. Paris: Librairie Ch. Delagrave, 1926.

RAMEAU, J. Ph. Traité de l'harmonie, réduite à ses principes naturels. Paris: Meridiens Klincksieck, 1986.

RAMEAU, J. Ph. Treatise on Harmony. Trad. Philip Gosset. New York: Dover Publications, 1071.

WAGNER, R. Beethoven. In: Sämtliche Schriften und Dichtungen. Band 9, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1911.

PASCHA, K. S. Gefrorene Musik - Das Verhältnis von Architektur und Musik in derästhetischen Theorie. Doktorarbeit – Technischen Universität Berlin, 2004.

Capa Voluntas v.6, n.2

Downloads

Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Barros, M. B. (2015). The shell itself: on the relationship between Schopenhauer’s philosophy of music and romantic musical thought. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 6(2), 30–53. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378633790

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2015): Estudos sobre Schopenhauer – Ed. 12

Section

Articles

License

The submission of original manuscripts to this journal implies the transference, by the authors, of the copyrights for printed and digital publication. The copyrights of a published manuscript belong ultimately to the author, and only the copyright for its first publication is reserved to the journal. Authors may only use the same results in other publications explicitly indicating this journal as the medium of the original publication. 

Licence

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) - This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.