Classical music
5 videos, newest first.
What Dominique Pagani says
Dominique Pagani approaches classical music through its forms and through history. He devotes two sessions to Mozart. He places his work in the "tipping point" between the Ancien Régime and the world that emerged from 1789. He brings out in it the sound of happiness, "a new idea in Europe" according to Saint-Just, and connects it with Rousseau's Confessions, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte1. Against Glenn Gould's rejection of Mozart, he defends the voluptuousness of the delayed dissonance. He presents Viennese classicism as the moment when the symphony, the concerto and the sonata reach their formal balance2. He defines the concerto, "concertante" in the Baroque era and conflictual in the Romantic era, and defends Tchaikovsky against the charge of bad taste3. With Beethoven, he explains sonata form and the shift from minuet to scherzo. He also shows how a scherzo fuses popular and learned music4. Finally, he questions the very notion of the classical, "what is learned in classes". He suggests that jazz may be the true classical music of the twentieth century5.
- 1Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021
- 2Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021
- 3TCHAÏKOVSKI - DES STEPPES AU MIDWEST • Pagani Parle Musique15 Jun 2022
- 4BEETHOVEN POMPETTE ! • Pagani Parle Musique6 Jul 2022
- 5JOHN LEWIS - CLASSIQUE OU JAZZ ? • Pagani Parle Musique29 Jun 2022
Introduction produced automatically from the 5 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.
The 5 videos
Pagani Parle MusiqueTIPSY BEETHOVEN! • Pagani Parle Musique
6 Jul 2022How does the scherzo of Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio unite popular and learned music?
Pagani Parle MusiqueJOHN 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?
Pagani Parle MusiqueTCHAIKOVSKY - 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?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 14. Mozart once more
7 Feb 2021Why 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?
MusicosophieMusicosophy 13. Mozart restored
2 Feb 2021What does Mozart's music say about happiness, and how does this happiness express the historical turning point of the late eighteenth century?