Breaking out of the sound ghetto
A history of music by Dominique Pagani: the Musicosophie cycle (conversations with Aymeric Monville), the “Pagani Parle Musique” podcast, and his playlists for breaking out of the sound ghetto (in French).
Pagani Parle Musique
From Bach to the Pygmies, from Mozart to Bartók, from jazz to Wagner. On YouTube and every platform.
SCHUBERT - THE DIVINE CAPTIVES • Pagani Parle Musique
3 Aug 2022How does music enter into time only to leave it, bringing back the past to the point of touching a kind of eternity?
NIETZSCHE - NO PITY FOR WAGNER • Pagani Parle Musique
27 Jul 2022Why does Nietzsche, after condemning Parsifal as a Christian betrayal of the Greek ideal, recognize in its music the truth he had refused?
WAGNER - THE TRUTH OF PURE MUSIC • Pagani Parle Musique
20 Jul 2022What does music say when it says nothing, and how does instrumental music express what words dare not say?
BARTÓK - THE UNHEARD-OF SOUND • Pagani Parle Musique
13 Jul 2022By what paths does contemporary classical music become avant-garde, and how does Bartók renew it through popular music?
TIPSY BEETHOVEN! • Pagani Parle Musique
6 Jul 2022How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?
JOHN LEWIS - CLASSICAL OR JAZZ? • Pagani Parle Musique
29 Jun 2022Does John Lewis's music belong to classical or to jazz, and is jazz not the true classical music of the twentieth century?
FROM BACH TO THE PYGMIES • Pagani Parle Musique
22 Jun 2022Do the common divisions between tonal and modal music, learned and popular, classical and jazz hold up to scrutiny?
TCHAIKOVSKY - FROM THE STEPPES TO THE MIDWEST • Pagani Parle Musique
15 Jun 2022What is a concerto, and what does the slow movement of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 reveal about Russian music?
FREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE - MULLIGAN • Pagani Parle Musique
8 Jun 2022How should one listen to a baritone saxophone solo against a big band, using the landmarks of jazz history and the range of the instruments?
POLYMORPHOUSLY PERVERSE MOZART • Pagani Parle Musique
1 Jun 2022How does Mozart's music unite libertinism and generosity, comedy and true emotion, gaiety and melancholy?
Pagani Parle Musique • Introduction to the podcast
23 May 2022What can we expect from speaking about music, and why deprive young people of music they are being denied?
- Production, direction, editing
- Aliocha
- Sound
- Rémi Chanaud
- Mixing
- Nicolas Aleksandrov
- Produced for the association by
- Pierre-Alain Giraud
- “Pagani Parle Musique” © 2022
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.
18 conversations · 29 hours
- 1Schubert and the master singersWhy begin a history of music with its middle, with Schubert and the second act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger?1 h 04
- 2From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on musicIs 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?1 h 46
- 3What is called modern music?What do we call modern music?1 h 37
- 4Sound ghettosHow does the "people" music born in the 1950s enclose young people worldwide in sound ghettos, and how can one escape it?1 h 34
- 5Happiness versus the death drive in musicHow does modern music, since Beethoven, oscillate between the popular demand for happiness and the romantic fascination with the death drive?1 h 25
- 6The Jazz Variation... by BeethovenWhat distinguishes genre from form in music, and why is the so-called "jazz variation" of Beethoven's opus 111 not jazz?2 h 02
- 7The Greeks, myth and musicWhy do Greek art, myth, and music, tied to a past that is gone, still give us aesthetic pleasure?1 h 02
- 8Happiness and unhappiness in musicWhy does the history of music make happy and morbid musics alternate, and what is the happiness that they express?2 h 09
- 9Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonataHow 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?1 h 41
- 10The two Klemperers and Bruno Walter in WagnerWhy was the best German music, that of Wagner in particular, best conducted and expressed by Jews whom Germany drove out?1 h 30
- 11Modal and tonal musicWhy did tonal music, a recent exception on a musically modal planet, appear and develop so quickly in what is called the West?1 h 54
- 12Nietzsche (right up) against WagnerWhat does the conflict between Nietzsche and Wagner reveal, once we reread Nietzsche's texts while listening to the music?2 h 12
- 13Mozart restoredWhat does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?1 h 34
- 14Mozart once moreWhy 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?1 h 55
- 15Plato, Rousseau, Hegel and musicWhat founds, since Plato, the complicity between music and philosophy?1 h 40
- 16Programme music / Pure musicDoes the distinction between pure music and program music hold, and what does it reveal about modernity?1 h 17
- 17InterpretationWhat does it mean to interpret a musical work, between improvisation, execution and the restitution of the composer's thought?1 h 34
- 18What is musical in musicWhat is musical in music?1 h 22
La fausse note
- Direction, editing
- Aliocha
- Camera
- Paolo Caponetto
- Sound
- Baptiste Marie
- Colour grading
- Pierre-Alain Giraud
- Music
- Miles Davis, « Autumn Leaves » ; « Somethin' Else », Cannonball Adderley — Blue Note Records © 1958
- Thanks
- Catherine & Jean Hermet
Music for breaking out of the sound ghetto
Thirteen YouTube playlists put together by Dominique Pagani — 1,644 tracks, from early polyphony to Coltrane — and more on his Deezer page.
275videosJazz
32videosPolyphonie ancienne
333videosPianistes review
26videosStrawinsky
44videosKammer Mozart
419videosViolon
39videosBrasilia
73videosLieder
15videosLiszt
39videosJazz/Coltrane
105videosÉcole de Vienne 1/Schoenberg
147videosChopin
97videos