this article, then, seeks to embrace the strangeness of the historical distance between Herder's intellectual landscape and our own. this imaginative exercise stands in contrast to the artifice of the subsequent history of the German folksong, whose poets, collectors, and composers who presented their readers with a landscaped Volksliedideal carefully crafted to appear natural. Within this context, the elisions and rough metrical edges of his folk poetry served alongside his phonophile's political philosophy to convince his small, elite audience to forsake their book-bound aesthetic to imagine a more songful kind of reading and, perhaps, to embrace a more natural and musical mode of existence. Placing Herder's Volkslieder within a social history of reading can illuminate why he put so much energy into philosophically playing with this boundary.
this article seeks to understand the meaning of this apparent contradiction by investigating the evidence at the scene of reading. yet he asks his readers to navigate the divide nonetheless-to read song. in his folksong collections, Johann Gottfried Herder acknowledges this dualism and favors song. How can one read song? reading is silent, introspective, singular singing is audible, performative, plural. His ‘Yiddish Accent’ and background had only added to the extra- musical impediments and had cost him almost a perfect silence in the wartime Nazi societies. Thus, he was forced to live in a limbo, shortly existing in a few last pages on the Late Romantics, a few first pages on the early Modernists, and the dark shadow in between. Yet, neither his progressive aesthetics were fully compatible with the sensitivities of Romanticism, nor his music was containable within the then predominant definitions of twentieth-century Modernism. Excerpt from the Preface: " For many decades, the widely adopted narrative of the history of music in the twentieth century seemed to have left Mahler behind, buried with reverence, in the remnants of the Late Romanticism. Gustav Mahler's Everlasting Influence: A Brief Discussion of "Der Abschied" from "Das Lied von der Erde" - Author: Payman Akhlaghi - Graudate Student Research Paper, Fall 2001, UCLA, Professor Paul Reale, UCLA - 41 pages, English.
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