[Smt-talk] Beethoven's inner ear

[Nicolas Meeùs]

Eytan,

It is most striking that you write that Beethoven's _scores_ testify to 
his inner ear. Why scores, why not "Beethoven's music"? Would the inner 
hear be about reading scores, rather than hearing music? Is our inner 
ear an inner eye?
      I'm not being ironic here, this is a question that always puzzled 
me. To me at least, what my inner ear tells me of music seems quite 
closer to what I can read than to what I hear, and I have always admired 
those who do _hear_ what they read, and write what their inner ear tells 
them – friends composers, for instance, who could write an orchestration 
without having to change anything after they first heard the result.
     This is why I became a theorist, and not a composer.

Nicolas

Nicolas Meeùs
Paris-Sorbonne University
http://nicolas.meeus.free.fr



Le 10/05/2014 07:33, Eytan Agmon a écrit :
>
> Martin Braun wrote:
>
> “What Beethoven heard via his “inner ear” has never been known to 
> anybody.”
>
> Trivially this is of course true. Our subjective experiences are known 
> only to ourselves. Nevertheless, human beings have always tried to 
> communicate these experiences to others. In Beethoven’s case, I have 
> always assumed that the scores he produced are testimony to what he 
> heard in his “inner ear.”
>
> Eytan Agmon
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> Department of Music
>
> Bar-Ilan University
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