Musical form’s temporal unfolding embodies a dialectic toward future plenitude

Evidence

Moreover, the sonata itself is proof of a kind of dialectic inherent in the musical experience, whereby this ontological relationship to the tone finds its fulfillment in that unfolding in time, in that temporal process and movement toward a future plentitude, which we know as musical form. Thus music is profoundly Utopian, both in its form and in its content. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 275

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Adorno’s locational idea of musical form as a becoming that anticipates reconciliation, and to Benjamin’s conception of messianic time as a filled present hanging in the weave. — connects to: Music’s post-French-Revolution evolution is capitalism working within the musical material itself — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 754; Beethoven’s sonata form reenacts tonality as a self-evident, self-confirming law; Greek circular time is the precondition for dialectical sublation of temporality — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 166 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Greek circular time is the precondition for dialectical sublation of temporality #expands (0.72) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 166