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Contemporary music review, 1997-01, Vol.16 (4), p.79-88
Ort / Verlag
Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Taylor & Francis
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The reader's reading of a text parallels the author's reading of life in that text. Thus, while the text is an allegory of life, some texts, because of their levels of authoriality, are also allegories of reading, as De Man suggests. In these texts, metaphors fall apart into metonymies. Music is more apt than literature to deconstruct itself in this way. The A flat fugue in the second book of Bach's "48", BWV 886, which is an extension of an earlier work, shows how a composer may pull apart his own metaphor and open the work to ambiguity. Since the two terms in the metaphor are respectively indexical (or "abstract") and symbolic (or "referential"), this deconstruction goes to the heart of the formalist/expressionist controversy. It delineates the space in which listening functions. It is an "allegory of listening".