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A Phenomenological Approach of a Special Artwork
Carmen Cozma
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2019.12.002
Centered on describing, understanding, and interpreting conscious experiences lived by the subject open to objects of various kinds, in the endeavour to catch some of the meaning of life, finally, in particular contexts, phenomenology provides efficient opportunities for questioning and appropriating the meaning of musical works in their complexity, depth, and dynamics. Although music is considered to be the universal language to most people, this art form (of sounds organized in melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, “color”, temporality, etc.) raises serious difficulties when it is theoretically approached in view of a better knowledge and comprehension. A hermeneutic phenomenological analysis can lead us to deciphering much more as regards the “aesthetic object”, which herein is a musical composition signed by Rodion Shchedrin. The “object” of contemplation is “Balalaika” for violin solo pizzicato. It is an uncommon piece of contemporary music we will tackle by applying the phenomenological perspective belonging to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. In this essay, we try to emphasize part of the inspiring potential “phenomenology of the ontopoiesis of life” that shows for living and grasping the sense of a peculiar encounter; the perceiving subject does experience with an expression of the art that exactly took its name from the “Muses”. And it matters the more so as the aesthetic experience is articulating together with an ethical, very own human, one.
phenomenological analysis, artwork, Shchedrin, phenomenology of life, Tymieniecka
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