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Nota introduttiva
No full textL'introduzione mira a fornire un contesto intellettuale all'interno del quale concepire i rapporti tra musica e razionalità nella storia della cultura occidentale e presenta l'organizzazione del volum
Autonomia dell'Aisthesis, emancipazione del Melos?
No full textIl capitolo ripercorre la filosofia della musica di Francis Hutcheson e Thomas Reid al fine di mettere in luce come l'attenzione per la natura dell'esperienza estetica li abbia condotti a immaginare un peculiare rapporto tra il polo del melos e quello del logo
Lucía Díaz Marroquín, La retórica de los affectos
No full textRecensione del libro di Lucía Díaz Marroquín, La retórica de los affecto
Writing about Polyphony, Talking about Civilization: Charles Burney's Musical 'Corns and Acorns'
Full text linkIn the eighteenth century polyphony—from simply being a term denoting a musical technique—became an evaluative-descriptive concept, following this path in association with the idea of civilization. Retracing Burney’s steps as a music historian and a music critic, the article shows how the Musical Doctor adopted a specific kind of narrative developed by Scottish conjectural historians that saw history as unfolding through several specific stages, progressively abandoning simplicity for the complexities of civilization. This seemingly linear narrative is complicated both by showing how making every music fit into this linear scheme was not easy, and by bringing forth the arguments developed especially by Scottish literati in order to explain why their native musical tradition could be considered equal or superior to Western art-music. The discourse, with Rousseauian echoes, that allowed the association between simplicity and positive values that were to be opposed to the excesses and depravity of civilized life, was articulated through the intellectual tools developed during the debate about luxury that raged through the eighteenth century. Nestled in the luxury debate, the non-literate music tradition that in non-Western locations had been considered as an instance of ‘barbarism’ now stood for a noble ‘simplicity’, whose value consequently reversed making artlessness a possible element of sublime beauty. The contradictions in Burney’s attitude towards non-Western musics and national European musics—on the one hand tirelessly collecting information about music-making from any corner of the world and on the other hand promoting only those values that made multi-part music the emblem of musical civilization—will serve to explain the interplay between ideas related to polyphony, civilization, and national musics in the eighteenth century
Thomas Tolley, Painting the Cannon’s Roar
No full textRecensione del libro di Thomas Tolley, Painting the Cannon’s Roa
Delgamuukw v. the Queen. Cronache di un ascolto giudiziario
No full textIl processo Delgamuukw v. the Queen ha riguardato una battaglia legale intentata dai popoli Gitxsan e Wet’suwet’en contro lo stato federale della British Columbia per il riconoscimento al diritto all’occupazione e possesso del suolo. Il processo è noto per la sua rilevanza in merito al tema dell’attribuzione di valore legale ai racconti di tradizione orale: i racconti di tradizione orale furono ammessi come forma di testimonianza, ma il loro valore legale venne negato. L’articolo mette in luce un momento specifico del dibattito processuale in un cui il concetto di canto e musica da cui muove il giudice Allan McEachern diviene pregiudiziale al fine della comprensione di ciò che sta accadendo in aula e della natura e del senso di ciò che viene in quel momento cantato in aula
Œuvres complètes. Tome XV – ...-1767. Dictionnaire de musique
No full textEdizione critica del Dictionnaire de musique di J.-J. Rousseau, preceduta da una introduzione sulla lessicografia musicale fino a Rousseau, corredata da note a piè di pagina, studio delle varianti manoscritte, tabelle e materiali aggiuntivi relativi in particolar modo agli studi di Pierre Burette sulla musica greca antica
Jacomien Prins, Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory
No full textRecensione del volume Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory di Jacomien Prin
- Chabanon e la querelle sulla “sinfonia degli Antichi” nei Memoires de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres di Parigi
No full textThe article examines the discussions about the use and knowledge of polyphony in ancient music which took place in France between the end of the seventeenth century and the end of the eighteenth century, with a special focus on the writings conceived within the walls of the Parisian Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres. The first section deals with the authors and their published works on the topic of whether the ancients knew counterpoint, while the second part offers an interpretation of the meaning of this dispute. The aim of the article is to show that this querelle had an interesting impact not only on the foundation of a musical historiography, but also on some of the aesthetic conceptions that were being born precisely at that time
La fortune britannique du Dictionnaire au XVIIIe siècle
No full textL'intervento prende in esame e discute alcune tracce che recano testimonianza della diffusione del Dizionario di musica di Rousseau nell'Inghilterra del Settecento
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