[392] That is, sculpture and painting.
[393] By Haltpunkte Hegel appears to mean material that will act as stays and supports in contrast to those which are indifferent.
[394] I presume by solchen festen Bestimmungen Hegel refers to the general definition of artistic function just enunciated. But the sense may possibly be, "while the point of departure is the stable determinations of natural form."
[395] We are inevitably reminded of the release which Art was to such men as Beethoven, Dante, Milton, and Blake.
[396] In the theme.
[397] It seems doubtful how how far a musician would accept this at least in so far as it applies to classical music of the formal type. The development, for instance, on the repetition of a theme in a sonata is at least part of the formal content of the sonata movement as a whole.
[398] Ein Auseinandergehen. Variations on a theme would be a good example. But surely the development of a theme may do precisely this in great measure, I mean disclose both the depth of it and its concentration.
[399] No doubt this is so if we assume the content to be mainly a theme, a motive. But the content of a movement includes the development. The main difference after all is the fundamental one that in music the content is unfolded in a time series and in the plastic arts instantaneously in spatial form. And in poetry the apprehension is also in a temporal series.
[400] It is impossible in English to reflect the play of words between Erinnerung (memory) and Er-innerung (self-penetration or ideal realization).
[401] I am not sure whether Hegel exactly means by Phantasiren what we understand as Improvization. But it is the only form of music that strictly applies to his definition. Even the rhapsodies of Liszt are controlled by the form, as in a sense all music is.