Adorno e a Nova Música

Abstract

This study presents a general idea on the Philosophy of New Music. To facilitate such exposition, two strategies were adopted. First, divide the text into two major chapters. Second, adopt some themes as conductor strings. However, the study did not restrain itself from making a simple rational reconstruction of the Philosophy of New Music. It also analyzed major musical and philosophical sources used by Adorno. In this context, special notability was given to the writings of Schoenberg, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Freud. Other texts from Adorno himself were also used, among them, one which demonstrated to be particularly relevant for our objectives, for example, Music and language: a fragment. Thus, we elaborated, based on the mentioned text, some kind of prelude. I concluded that, to Adorno, atonal music developed by Schoenberg stood in the forefront of European art. Stravinski, on the other hand, led a reactionary movement which searched an arbitrary conservation of the past, thus compromising, both the old and the new.