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Mahler’s Song of the Earth

Mahler’s Song of the Earth. Modes of Understanding. Modes of Understanding. Visual Arts from 2 to 4 dimensions Music from score to sound and to soul e.g. Webern on Mahler’s Das Lied. Modes of Understanding in Visual Arts. 2-D: Painting e.g. Da Vinci, Mona Lisa , 1503–04

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Mahler’s Song of the Earth

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  1. Mahler’s Song of the Earth Modes of Understanding

  2. Modes of Understanding • Visual Arts • from 2 to 4 dimensions • Music • from score to sound and to soul • e.g. Webern on Mahler’s Das Lied

  3. Modes of Understanding in Visual Arts • 2-D: Painting • e.g. Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503–04 • 3-D: Sculpture (in time!) • e.g. Michelangelo, David, 1501–04 • 4-D: in time, in historical time • objectivism, relativism…

  4. Score (the text) the music form Sound performance form in motion Soul existential art-life-world Historical aspect Modes of Understanding in Music

  5. Need of Understanding in Art “One day the last portrait of Rembrandt [1606–69] and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be—though possibly a coloured canvas and a sheet of notes may remain—because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”(Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, 1918)

  6. The Problem: e.g. in Taipei 101 Picasso’s Guernica (1937)

  7. To Berg, Oct. 30, 1911

  8. To Schoenberg, Nov. 18, 1911

  9. To Berg, Nov. 23, 1911

  10. [I]

  11. I: 89 ff.

  12. [II]

  13. II: 92 ff.

  14. II: 60 ff.

  15. [III]

  16. III: 111 ff.

  17. [IV]

  18. IV: 13 ff.

  19. IV: 114 ff.

  20. [IV cont.]

  21. [V]

  22. V: 19 ff.

  23. V: 37 ff.

  24. V: 55 ff.

  25. [VI]

  26. VI: 43 ff.

  27. VI: 265 ff.

  28. VI: 394 ff.

  29. Score the text Sound remembered instrumentation Soul personal spiritual unmentioned here but not unimportant for Webern form expression Webern’s Modes of Understanding(as exposed in his letters)

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