by David James
British writer and editor Joseph Pearce has argued, while considering Beethoven’s corpus, that there are two ways to rate music: the “subjective best” and the “objective best”.
He writes: “Clearly the objective best is better than its subjective counterpart. The first has some claim to an intrinsic truth which transcends the perception of it; the other can only claim to be ‘true’ in terms of my own personal and particular perception of it.”
Pearce assert…
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