Adorno read twelve-tone music through humanity’s domination of nature

Evidence

Twelve-tone technique is a system of domination over nature within music. It corresponds to a longing present from the beginnings of the bourgeois period: to grasp' whatever sounds appear and set them in order, dissolving the magical essence of music in human reason . . . Conscious disposition over the material provided by nature has two aspects: it is the emancipation of humanity from natural necessity within music, and the subjection of nature to human purposes . . . However, the oppressive moment of subjugating nature reverses itself and turns against the subjective autonomy and freedom in whose name domination over nature has been achieved. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1269</cite> (#expands`, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno read Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique as demythologizing rationalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 365; Adorno saw twelve-tone technique as domination over nature that rebounds against its creators — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1269; Twelve-tone technique is domination of nature within music (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Adorno saw twelve-tone technique as domination over nature that rebounds against its creators #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1269
• Twelve-tone technique is domination of nature within music #corroborates (0.85)