This article argues that Beethoven’s Arietta Variations inscribe the activity of listening in their own melodic and harmonic processes. The argument proceeds from two observations: (1) that tonality anticipates the listening subject in the form of a “desire” to progress from dominant to tonic; (2) that the temporal representation produced by analysis is always minimally dislocated from the time of music’s sonic unfolding. A notion of “the time it takes to listen” describes the time it takes for the ear to bring to its completion the analytical representation of time and thereby accounts for this gap. An analysis focusing on the role of the trill demonstrates how the Arietta Variations reflect this supplementary temporality in their own unfolding.

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聆听所需的时间

本文认为，贝多芬的阿里埃塔变奏曲将聆听活动刻画在它们自己的旋律和和声过程中。该论点源于两个观察结果：（1）音调以“渴望”的形式预测听力主体从主调发展到主调；(2) 分析产生的时间表征总是与音乐声音展开的时间发生最小程度的错位。“聆听所需时间”的概念描述了耳朵完成时间的分析表示所需的时间，从而解释了这种差距。对颤音作用的分析展示了 Arietta Variations 如何在它们自身的展开中反映这种补充的时间性。