MUS 113 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gustav Mahler, Maurice Ravel, Major Second
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Beauty is desirable and visible; we can receive beauty with our senses and endure it with our senses. Things like reason, virtue, and truth cannot be physically comprehended. If they were to, our senses would be overwhelmed and we would die. Beaut(cid:455) is the lover(cid:859)s path to the spirit. There is a god in someone who loves; there is no god in someone who is loved. Gustav rejects the ideas of art and believes that you cannot reach the spirits through the senses; with complete domination of your senses, you can achieve wisdom, truth, and human dignity. Music and art is ambiguous, which is evil. Alfred says that you can only sense beauty and that art is a necessity; it is ambiguous as art should be, even if it is evil. The artist uses beauty as a path to the spirits to obtain wisdom and dignity. However, this path is dangerous and filled with sins that leave you astray.
