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Stefan Wolpe's dialectical logic: a look at the Second Piece for Violin Alone.

Perspectives of New Music

| June 22, 2002 | Greenbaum, Matthew | COPYRIGHT 2002 Perspectives of New Music. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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?

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