Klarinet Archive - Posting 000130.txt from 2008/12

From: Alexander Brash <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] Beethoven Nine and Meaning
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:10:37 -0500

I'm looking for an article and my googling skills have failed. I
remember once reading what I thought was rather famous argument about
where meaning lies in a musical work. Someone (I think it was Adorno?)
had a thought experiment where he argued that Beethoven 9 didn't
actually exist, since you couldn't point to where it existed (not in
the score, a single performance, etc), along with some other
ramifications. Does anyone know what I'm referring to? It's driving me
bonkers. I might have read it in the Stravinsky Poetics of Music, but
he was definitely quoting someone else...

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