Musicosophie
a history of music
A history of music by Dominique Pagani: conversations with Aymeric Monville, which are to form the basis of a book published by Delga.
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Musicosophy 1. Schubert and the master singers
Why begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?
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Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music
Is the divorce between scholarly music and popular music that Lévi-Strauss notes in contemporary music a new symptom, and how can one think the union of speech and music up to the music of the future?
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Musicosophy 3. What is called modern music?
What do we call modern music?
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Musicosophy 4. Sound ghettos
How does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?
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Musicosophy 5. Happiness versus the death drive in music
How does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?
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Musicosophy 6. The Jazz Variation... by Beethoven
What distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?
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Musicosophy 7. The Greeks, myth and music
Why do Greek art, myth, and music, tied to a past that is gone, still give us aesthetic pleasure?
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Musicosophy 8. Happiness and unhappiness in music
Why does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?
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Musicosophy 9. Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata
How can a literary text convey what is heard in music, and what do Walt's dream in Jean-Paul and Vinteuil's little phrase in Proust reveal?
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Musicosophy 10. The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in Wagner
Why was the best German music, that of Wagner in particular, best conducted and expressed by Jews whom Germany drove out?
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Musicosophy 11. Modal and tonal music
Why did tonal music, a recent exception on a musically modal planet, appear and develop so quickly in what is called the West?
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Musicosophy 12. Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner
What does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?
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Musicosophy 13. Mozart restored
What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?
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Musicosophy 14. Mozart once more
Why does Mozart's music, situated in the shift from the Ancien Régime to the new world, express that happiness which is, according to Saint-Just, a new idea in Europe?
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Musicosophy 15. Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and music
What founds, since Plato, the complicity between music and philosophy?
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Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music
Does the distinction between pure music and program music hold, and what does it reveal about modernity?
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Musicosophy 17. Interpretation
What does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?
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Musicosophy 18. What is musical in music
What is musical in music?