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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I strongly recommend an authoritative, enlightening book which discusses, among many other things, the difference between heard music and imagined music: Nicholas Cook,<i> Music,
Imagination, and Culture</i>, Oxford, OUP, 1990.<br>
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Jonathan<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF289962"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Smt-talk [smt-talk-bounces@lists.societymusictheory.org] on behalf of Nicolas Meeùs [nicolas.meeus@scarlet.be]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 12, 2014 2:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Eytan Agmon; smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Smt-talk] Beethoven's inner ear<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri">Eytan,<br>
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It is most striking that you write that Beethoven's <u>scores</u> 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?<br>
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
<u>hear</u> 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.<br>
This is why I became a theorist, and not a composer.<br>
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Nicolas<br>
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Nicolas Meeùs<br>
Paris-Sorbonne University<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 10/05/2014 07:33, Eytan Agmon a écrit :<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Martin Braun wrote:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"; color:#1F497D">“</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"; color:black">What Beethoven heard via his “inner ear” has never been known to anybody.</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"; color:#1F497D">”</span><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"; color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">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.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Eytan Agmon</span></p>
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