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The Problem of Heritage in The Musical Life of The Present
The Problem of Heritage in The Musical Life of The Present
art work but the experiencing man becomes the centre.58 The question many questions remained unanswered. From this abundance of artistic
arises: with which type of sound can contemporary man experience the material, creative man has selected part to form a living heritage; selected
historical art work in the way the person of that time experienced it? by man who lives in the present but experiences the art of the past. He is
Or: how can the historical art work be made to react on contemporaries faced with the problem of reconciling present time with past heritage.
in the same manner as it did then? This type of question throws open Music research faces the task of recognizing these numerous problems of
anthropological, psychological and sociological aspects. Man of today lives music and music-making. In musical life, however, the relationship of
under different spiritual conditions than man of the sixteenth or eighteenth present-day man to his heritage solves itself in the obligation of art and
centuries. The class of society for whom Baroque music was writ.ten was in the respect for the creative spirit of present and past which, in terms of
different from the one who hears B roque music today. The musical actual sound, determine that the artistic experience is one of contemporary
perception, the hearing of sonic structures in the shape and purity of the man in a contemporary setting.
Baroque period, were different from today, as is evident from the musical,
theoretical and aesthetical writings of that epoch.59 This is true for every
music of the past which is alive in our time as a heritage. The history of
Fine Arts knows this problem concerning the evaluation of the historical- NOTES
art work, but not concerning its form. For the musical heritage which
1 M. Weber, Die rationalen und so{iologisclzen Grundlagen der Musik. Mlinchen, 1924;
has come to life again in Our time, there is the decisive problem of per- E. H. Meyer, Musik im Zeitgeschehen. Berlin, 1952.
formance practice. If we had recordings from the Baroque time, many 2 A. Gehlen, Der Mensch, seine Natur und seine Stellung in der W elt . Berlin, 1940; E. R.
questions about sonic reality which musical research tries to clarify Jaensch, Grundformen menschlichen Seins. Berlin, 1929.
3 A. Silbermann, Wovon lebt die ,lfusik? Regensburg, 1957; H. Engel, Musik und Gesell-
would be solved; and an historical reconstruction corresponding to the schaft. Berlin, 1960.
sonic conception of the old work would be clearly possible. There is the 4 K. Blaukopf, Musikso{iologie. Koln and Berlin, 1951.
question, however, whether man of today could experience this sonic 5 F. v. Hausegger, Die Musik als Ausdruck. Wien, 1885; L. Klages, Grundlegung der
effect in the same way as man of that time; whether it would not mean Wissenschaft vom Ausdruck. Leipzig, 1936.
6 A. Wellek, Typologie der Musikbegabung im deutschen Volke. Mlinchen, 1939; P.
something entirely different; whether the technique of the period-in Lamparter, 'Die Musikalitiit in ihren Be{ielzungen {Ur Grundstruktur der Personliclzkeit, in:
such strong contrast to today's demand for perfection of intonation- Erg. Bd. 22, Zeitschr. fur P sychologie. Leipzig, 1932; C. C. Pratt, The Meaning of Music.
would not wholly take away his appreciation of the work. New York-London, 1931.
7 K. G. Fellerer, Einfiihrung i(l die Musikwissensclzaft. Hamburg, 1953.
Old music has become a living heritage because our time experiences 8 A. Silbermann, 'Musikformen und Gesellschaftsformen', in: Bernsdorf u. Eisermann, Die
in it traits which it yearns to find. But it requires a verification how far Einheit der So{ialwissensclzaft. Stuttgart, 1955.
this experience coincides with the meaning of the work in relation to its 9 V. Zuckerkandl, The Sense of Music. Princeton 1959; W. Wiora, Die vier Weltalter der
time; in particular, how the work exists not only as an historically viewed Musik. Stuttgart, 1961.
10 H. Noh!, 'Die mehrseitige Funktion der Kunst', in: Deutsche Vierteljahr-schrift Litera-
museum piece (i .e. heritage) but as something new, and perhaps even turwiss. u. Geistesgesclz. II, 1925, 179. ··
alien. Problems arise because heritage means life and is borne by man. II G. Farmer, Turkish Instruments of Music in the 17th Century. Glasgow, 1937; P.
It is different to recognize and experience ( r) the desire for understand- Panoff, 'Das musikalische Erbe der Janitscharen', in: Atlantis XX, 1938.
12 P. Netti, Tanz und Tanzmusik. Freiburg, i. Br. 1962;.P. Netti, The Dance in Classical
ing historical reality and (2) the experience that this art has for our present Music. New York, 1963.
life. Both cannot, however, be separated. The very fact that old music 13 J. Horton, Scandinavia11 Music. London, 1963; R. Newmarch, The Music of C{echo-
could become a living heritage in our time (whose own music is entirely slovakia. London, 1942; Fr. Zagiba, Gesclzichte der slowakisc!,en Musik, Pressburg, 1943;
J. Keldysch, Gescl,ichte der russischen Musik, Leipzig, 1956; Z. Jachimecki, Die polnische
differently oriented) shows that we have artistic material of importance Musik in historisclzer E11twicklu11g, Krakau, 1951.
to the questing mind of today. Otherwise we could hardly speak of the 14 R. Haas, Auffiihru11gspraxis der M usik. Potsdam, 1931; A. Schering, Aujfolzru11gspraxis
life of old music in our time and of its heritage. Research has made alter Musik. Leipzig, 1831.
accessible the entire music from the Middle Ages to the present, even if 15 A. Einstein, Grosse i11 der Musik. Zurich, 1951.
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STUDIES lN EIGHTEENTH-CENT UH. Y MUSIC
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20 E.T. Ferrand, Die Improvisation in der Musik. Zlirich, 1939.
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22 K. G. Fellerer, Gesclziclue der katlz. Kirclzenmusik. Dlisseldorf, 1949 (English: Balti- more, 1961).
23 F. Blume, Gescl,iclzte der evangelisclzen Kirchemusik. Kassel, 1965.
24 K. G. Fellerer, Der Palestrinastil und seine Bedeutung in der vokalen Kirclzenmusik des 18.
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26 A. Einstein, Music in tlze Romantic Era, New York, 1947; W. Reich, Musik in roman- tisclzer Sclzau. Basel, 1946.
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28 R. Hohenemser, JVelclze Einfliisse lzatte die JViederbelebung der a!teren Musik im 19.
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34 A Symposium on the question of Historismus in der Musik, edited by W. Wiora, is about to appear (Regensburg, 1969).
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36 A. Schering, Gesclziclzte des Oratoriums. Leipzig, 1911.
37 Th. W. Adorno, 'Neue Tempi' in: Moments musicales. Frankfurt M., 1964.
38 \V. Fischer, 'Selbstzeugnisse Mozarts flir die Aufflihrungsweise seiner \Verke', in:
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40 K. G. Fellerer, 'Musik als Aussage. Das Erbe der Musik im Musikleben der Gegenwert', in: Musikleben, VIII, 1955, 300.
41 H. Riemann, Gescl,iclzte der Musik seit Beetlzoven. Berlin and Stuttgart, 1901, 559.
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47 Th. W. Adorno, Pl,ilosoplzie der neuen Musik. Frankfurt, 1958.
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50 K. G. Fellerer, Das Problem Neue Musik, Krefeld, 1967.
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57 H. Kirchmeyer, Strawinsky. Regensburg, 1958.
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