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Article: Stefan Wolpe's dialectical logic: a look at the Second Piece for Violin Alone.
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- Perspectives of New Music
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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With [Hegel, the dialectic] is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell.
--Karl Marx
MUSIC HOPES TO DRAW its vitality from nature. A study of this ambition would produce a natural history of the art form, starting with the Pythagoreans and reaching beyond Hegel. Indeed, the dialectical reasoning in dispute between Hegelians and Marxists has been a rich source of such organicist beliefs. If art progresses according to nature's own principles of growth and contrast, can its validity be doubted?
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