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- [1956-1957?] (Creation)
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19 pages (excluding duplicate pages due to annotations), typed with annotations in pencil and black, blue ink
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Zuckerkandl explores the experience of space through listening. Drawing from mathematics, philosophy, and psychology, Zuckerkandl compares ideas regarding objects in physical space to that of pitches in musical space. He claims that pitch space is a "place-less space" ("ortloser Raum"). Zuckerkandl concludes that the laws of nature are "only half" understood through numbers and mathematics; the world must also be musical.
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- German
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St. John's, Box 1, Folder 14
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Manuscript held at Eranos: "Zeit und Raum der musikalischen Erfahrung." Possibly related to Letter from Viktor Zuckerkandl to [Max] Knoll, held at Eranos.
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Date suggested by opening "Zeit und Raum der musikalischen Erfahrung [Version A]": Zuckerkandl writes to an unknown "Sie" (perhaps Knoll), providing them with a few pages should they decide to suggest Zuckerkandl for a presentation at Eranos Conference, 1957. Zuckerkandl refers to this meeting as "next year's" conference.