Music

Summary

Dominique Pagani holds that some kinds of music contain more music than others, and he makes clear that this is not a value judgment1. For him, what is musical in music comes down to consent: one stops holding back and gives way to the melodic flow2. Within the symbolic order, he links music to the least visible matter, which points at once to an elsewhere3. Placed at the centre of a triangle, it speaks above all to the soul, without the precise determination of language4. He also takes up the history of music in connection with Nietzsche. In his view, by the end of the nineteenth century music had exhausted its veins and was heading towards ruptures, jazz among them5. Nietzsche then foresees a crueller music, more than European, a "sister of the palm tree", which knows nothing of good and evil6.

1. 1#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 1:02:08
2. 2#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 1:19:55
3. 3#18 What is musical in music25 Mar 2021 · 1:07:47
4. 4#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 10:36
5. 5Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny7 Feb 2023 · 2:42
6. 6Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny7 Feb 2023 · 6:51

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