Abstract
Considering that many students do not let their imaginative potential fully develop during their formation years we will demonstrate in this paper that Intonasiya/Musical Image paired with Musical Hermeneutics may be an interesting alternative for a creative approach in piano teaching. To achieve that we’ll plunge into the 19th century debate about the possibility of music to be able to represent, to have meaning, discuss the concepts of Intonasiya/Musical Image and Hermeneutical Windows and last but not least, advocate that these tools can be useful for Piano and music instruction stimulating creativity
Highlights
Not always has the occidental tradition advocated Eduard Hanslick’s thesis that the musical discourse was unable to carry a meaning
During the 19th Century the debate on the idea of an absolute music emerged mainly by Eduard Hanslick (On Musical Beauty) who appropriated an expression at first used in a pejorative manner by Richard Wagner and linked it to the concept of autonomous music
The theme of a musical composition is its own content which leaves no space for meaning at all. This notion of absolute music and its implications on art value are by no means unanimous in the 19th Century
Summary
Not always has the occidental tradition advocated Eduard Hanslick’s thesis that the musical discourse was unable to carry a meaning (or to say in more modern terms, capable of representing). Since I discussed two opposite views about the possibility of music being able to represent non-musical objects, be able to carry meaning or to represent (not specific one, but a chain of meanings) and we’ve seen that it is reasonable to accept that it can tell a story through narrative strategies (in a somewhat opposition to what Kerman back in the 80’s called “positivism”), we present two important tools that may help in decodifying these representations and contributing to a construction of an interpretation and important for music pedagogy: the Intonasiya/Musical Image and the Hermeneutical Windows of Lawrence Kramer
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