musik, erlebnis & ausdruck

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 from ...
                                           *** wilhelm dilthey: der aufbau der  
                                               geschichtlichen welt in den      
                                               geisteswissenschaften [1910],    
                                               (zusatz: das musikalische        
                                               verstehen), ffm 1981: suhrkamp,  
                                               p. 274, own translation ***


 ~ "also could no history of music ever say something about the way how 
 experience [erlebnis] becomes music. precisely that is after all the highest  
 achievement of music: that this what - often dark, undefined, not aware of the 
 self - takes place inside a musical soul unintentionally finds its   
 crystal-clear expression in the musical creation. there is no twofoldedness of 
 experience and music, no double world, no carrying over from the one into the 
 other. the genius is exactly the life in the sphere of sound as if it would 
 exist alone, to forget about all fate and suffers while dwelling in this  
 sound-world, and yet so that all of that pain still takes part. also there's 
 not one regular way of getting from experiencing to music. the one who 
 experiences music - memories, fluttering pictures, once bygone vague moods 
 which reach into it, directly into the ecstasy of creating - perceives it 
 inside, might take off from a rhythmical invention, the other time from certain 
 harmonies or then again from the experience as such. of all arts, musical 
 creating is most strictly bounded to technical rules and, at the same time, the 
 freeest in spiritual movement."

                                      
kai, enjoying the freedom of herb robertson's trumpet "transparency" ~