Touching Up the Paint or a Complete Vinyl Residing? Reflections over Meta-Scientific Problems in Music Theory
Per F. Broman · Perspectives of New Music · 1999
In the realm of architecture, the fictional is always only one aspect of the total whole. A building is not purely a work of art, and it can never come out as independently as a novel or a painting. Architecture is directly connected to the everyday procedures of human life, and it is more subject to the utility and profit considerations of economics than any other art. But under the dominance of functionalism the fictional element was banished from architecture, and the only thing left was the technique of building. A Gothic cathedral, which according to Abbot Suger was an earthly likeness of the City of Heaven and the reflection of God's light on human reality, would