Musikgeschichte als heilige Geschichte - ein Versuch, die Entwicklung neu zu verstehen

Abstract

The attempt to explain developments in music history, not as movement of material (Adorno) but as the unfolding of man’s potentials, has its origin in the image and theory of man as offered by the evolution of consciousness (Jean Gebser, Ken Wilber and others). Since 1600 there has been a development of “spiritual signatures’”; the article gives a survey of its chances and dangers from the Baroque era up to Postmodernism.