Pedagogy of the new music. Webern as an educator
In this paper, we discuss the figure but above all the teaching vocation of the Viennese composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945). After briefly sketching the musician’s philosophical and aesthetic outlook, we will focus on the lectures given between 1932 and 1934 on twelve-tone composition within the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Historia de la Educación |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0212-0267/article/view/11290 |
| Summary: | In this paper, we discuss the figure but above all the teaching vocation of the Viennese composer Anton von Webern (1883-1945). After briefly sketching the musician’s philosophical and aesthetic outlook, we will focus on the lectures given between 1932 and 1934 on twelve-tone composition within the context of a farranging educational project holding considerable cultural significance. Second, through a comprehensive analysis of these lectures, we will shed light on Webern’s wish to formulate a genuine normative aesthetics of music that encompassed and provided a preferential rationale for the twelve-tone system. Thus, this «stylistic option» —it should be remembered that the new music, to paraphrase Aristotle’s famous saying, /can be preached in many ways /— will be defended in the light of a normative aesthetics that reflects on the essence of art and music and which uses Goethe’s morphology as indisputable point of reference. |
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| ISSN: | 0212-0267 2386-3846 |