Music interpretation: Meaning, listening and technique

Abstract

This text analyzes the hegemony of science and technology in the contemporary world and its respective evelopment in the universe of art. Navigated by Heidegger’s ontological phenomenology of being, we seek from this inspiration to use musical terms in their original sense of affection. The inquiry is thus to unveil what the instrumentation of theoretical science covers through its technical concepts. The intention is not to present a technical article with pretensions of philosophical academic research. However, it is more about allowing and enabling a dialogue on the question of technique in art from a hermeneutic-poetic understanding through an exercise of thought. It is here proposed, therefore, an interpretation of music by listening to the “affect” that guides and “touches” the being, allowing the presence of the poetic to reveal the echoes of the connecting point between the interpreter and the work, transforming them into a unit in which the meaning of the mysteries that are aroused from silence reverberates, allowing art to resonate while listening.