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Stefan Wolpe's dialectical logic: a look at the Second Piece for Violin Alone.
With [Hegel, the dialectic] is standing on its head. It must be turned right side up again, if you would discover the rational kernel within the mystical shell.
--Karl Marx
MUSIC HOPES TO DRAW its vitality from nature. A study of this ambition would produce a natural history of the art form, starting with the Pythagoreans and reaching beyond Hegel. Indeed, the dialectical reasoning in dispute between Hegelians and Marxists has been a rich source of such organicist beliefs. If art progresses according to nature's own principles of growth and contrast, can its validity be doubted?
As greater attention is paid to the music and theoretical writings ...
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Morris, Robert June 22, 2002 700+ words
...inspiring paper, I want to think about Wolpe's "ever-restored and ever-advancing...something I've frequently overheard: that Wolpe's music, especially the late music...gestural and kinetic character, suggests that Wolpe is performing his musical thoughts and...
- Wolpe Centennial essays.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music June 22, 2002 700+ words
...THE CENTENNIAL of the birth of Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972), who came of age...Festival-Symposium held by The Stefan Wolpe Society hosted by Northwestern...Archives and 'Form and Antiform: Stefan Wolpe and the Busoni Legacy,"' with...
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Wolpe, Stefan Greenbaum, Matthew June 22, 1996 700+ words
...theater piece, to be enacted by Stefan Wolpe (along with two pianists to play...unifies a range of influences spanning Wolpe's life: the aesthetic of the Bauhaus...the written text can never replace Wolpe's actual voice: lyric, stern...