Excerpt in Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics, last paragraph on page 117 starting with, "The origin of the fundamental idea for a work of art has been very appropriately called..." onto the next page, ending with, "Yet ultimately everything turns on our own strength; and just as no food or medicine can impart or replace vital force, so no book or study can furnish an individual and original mind" (118).
I chose this song to express the point made in Schopenhauer's passage. The paragraph mostly concerns how a work of art seems to develop through "procreation" and "conception" through "mood and opportunity" as well as through the "fruitfulness" derived from the interactions between a male (the object) and female (the subject). Particularly in this piece, the lower, deeper tones seem to serve as Schopenhauer's object. Whenever the light, almost flittering, notes come into play, the two separate "gendered" stream of notes seem to play with each other, much like the "call-and-response" relationship we had discussed in lecture last week. This fruitfulness as a result from such gendered interactions inevitably lead to what Schopenhauer describes to be a "vivid, penetrating, and original idea," and thus gives birth to a "great and beautiful work." This work is original and illuminating, trifling yet beautiful, for it illuminates the "innermost depths of nature."
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