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<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>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nicolas.meeus.free.fr">http://nicolas.meeus.free.fr</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 10/05/2014 07:33, Eytan Agmon a
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Braun wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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
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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.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Eytan
Agmon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Department
of Music<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bar-Ilan
University <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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