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humour

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Series · 15 Jan 2021Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata

36:32True humor is not irony, a laugh against the other: it is self-mockery, as in Heine and Nerval.
45:41Humoristic distancing has a curative and therapeutic function against the deadly side of romanticism.

Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music

1:24:25Humor, in Ligeti, is a non-definitive resolution of the aporia between scholarly and popular.
1:26:27There is a class laughter, which mocks the beggar, and a humor that helps one endure the times.