著者

龍村 あや子

出版者

北海道東海大学

雑誌

北海道東海大学紀要. 人文社会科学系 (ISSN:09162089)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.121-134, 1989

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This paper reexamines the often noted parallelism in ideal, logical structure and time consciousness between Hegel's philosophy and Beethoven's music. Theodor W. Adorno's Theory provides some key concepts for this study. Born in 1770,Beethoven and Hegel built up the basis of their thoughts during the time of the great revolution in Western Europe, the period characterized by the rising spirit of the bourgeoisie and the belief in social progress. Both Hegel's philosophy and Beethoven's music in his middle period embody the two common spirits of this age : idealism and humanism. Their thoughts show not only the tendency toward a system and totality but also the dialectical way of thinking. Their time consciousness is subjective and progressive, the point which has an essential meaning for construction of their logical thoughts. According to Adorno, the structure of the symphonic sonata form of the middle Beethoven bears the same nature of the 'affirmative dialectic' as in Hegel's philosophy; on one side this structure is an expression of the strong historical subject, which insists on its humanistic ideal without giving up its hope for a better world; but on the other side this logic cannot act for the change of the real society, because the affirmative dialectic remains a mere ideology. Although Adorno himself didn't give an analytical proof of the logical parallelism between Hegel's philosophy and the music of the middle Beethoven, his thematic can be concretized as a matter of the structure of music. Therefore I demonstrate it through the actual analysis of the first movement of the third symphony "Eroica". The result of my analysis is a clarification of Beethoven's sonata form as a 'dialectical process'. Beethoven made this structure possible through : his new idea of treatment of the thematic complexes and his 'elemental-analytic' treatment of materials.