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Negation
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BBD a10060625
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MT Music terms
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May be used as a subdivision to terms in the Works List (WL) hierarchy
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Adorno's concept that Beethoven's late works were "a negative apocalypse, or the beginning of an historical process in which the self-generating motif is transformed through rationality until it is reduced to a series of pitches rather than a recognizable motif." (Adorno, "Negative Dialectics")
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Criticism
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Developmental process
 
Motives
 
Philosophy