Description
6 Dialogues
Composed by Roger C. Vogel
For Flute and Horn
Published by Brixton Publications
Total duration: ca. 16 minutes
Includes 2 scores
Contents:
1. The Dialectic
2. Hymn to Love
3. Virtue
4. Rhetoric
5. Justice
6. The Sophists
About the Composition:
Six Dialogues was written in 2015-2016 for Angela Jones-Reus, Professor of Flute at the University of Georgia, and Achim Reus, former principal hornist in the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, and currently a private horn teacher in Athens, Georgia.
Few other authors in the history of Western philosophy can compare with Plato in the depth and range of his work. His dialogues have long highly esteemed in their treatment of justice, virtue, and love, as well as political, religious, and other social concerns. Socrates is most often the protagonist in the dialogues with his dialectic method of inquiry, a rigorous conversation consisting of short questions that lead to the heart of any matter. At odds with Socrates are the sophists, teachers whose mastery of rhetoric, the art of persuasion, seeks to convince the listeners to accept their propositions without critical inquiry. Each of the Six Dialogues is a reflection on one aspect of Plato's dialogues.