THE MUSIC-SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTION BY THEODOR W. ADORNO: TRIAL OF DESCRIPTION
In present article are described the leading aspects of musical and sociological conception by Theodor W. Adorno, the eminent German philosopher and musicologist, and is also made the attempt to reveal the phenomenon of so-called “structural hearing”, which can be understood as an interlink between music-socioligical and music-theorerical aspects in the system of views by Adorno. The “structural hearing” is based here on rather original and special, but also arbitrary associations; it includes emotional side of musical content and relies in any event on all features and sides of language of European music. An important indication of the “structural hearing” is a procedural, dynamic perception of music by the German philosopher. His works actual as before are considered today as exemplary ones both in Russia and in the Western Europe.