be-ing and tuning
October 19th, 2008, search relatedRelated posts :: Blog Registration :: [Admin] And we have a winner! :: [Admin] And we have a winner! :: The Truth about Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger/Music
hi folks, just a note: been reading Heidegger’s Beitrage whilst hearing a
great recording (Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Phil) of Mahler’s
enormous glorious 6th Symphony and peripherally glimpsing leaves fluttering
down from the tree at the back garden: beginning to grasp the different
plays of the word/concept “being” (typographically, “being” {as of a being},
“Being” {as the being of a being} and “be-ing” {the post-metaphysical advent
of Being once it is without reference to beings}). These plays show the
playful changes in register of the notion of being as the transition, the
crossing over/out, of metaphysics from the end of the first beginning
(inception) to the other (new) beginning in the thinking of the new
beginning.
In a relatively superficial sense, this reminds me of the different statuses
of the same note when engaged in those constellations/configurations of
tonal music, the key. For example: if one was writing/playing in A major the
note C# would be a third above the tonic (A), whereas if one were in Ab
major, that same note would be (enharmonically called) Db and a fourth above
the tonic; one and the same pitch (C#/Db) would serve different functions in
the tonal system of the piece and thus, in a way, the two designations
(C#/Db) refer to both the same (the same absolute pitch, at least in
equal-temperament) and different (they are different in a tonal musical
functional sense). This same/difference is used by composers to great (and
sometimes ambiguously playful) effect during modulations (transitions from
one key to another).
This, I think, is also happening in that great (multiply fugal) work, the
Beitrage, by Heidegger, with respect to thinking be-ing. [And both the
musical and philosophical transitional plays put a smile on my face; the
glorious richness of that serious playfulness, so much more fun than the
deadly strict puritanisms of the literal-minded and mono-logical.]
regards to all transitioners and modulators
michaelP
