The hatred of music / Pascal Quignard ; translated by Mathew Amos and Fredrik Ronnback.

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Quignard, Pascal [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Margellos world republic of letters bookPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780300220940
0300220944
0300211384
9780300211382

Uniform titles:

Haine de la musique. English

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DDC classification:

780.1 23

LOC classification:

ML3845

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- First Treatise: The Tears of Saint Peter -- Second Treatise: It So Happens That Ears Have No Eyelids -- Third Treatise: On My Death -- Fourth Treatise: On the Subject of the Bonds Between Sound and Night -- Fifth Treatise: The Song of the Sirens -- Sixth Treatise: Louis XI and the Musical Pigs -- Seventh Treatise: The Hatred of Music -- Eighth Treatise: Res, Eochaid, Eckhart -- Ninth Treatise: To Disenchant -- Tenth Treatise: On the End of the Liaisons -- Translators' Afterword

Summary: "Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard's masterful exploration of the power of music and what history reveals about the dangers it poses. From prehistoric chants to challenging contemporary compositions, Quignard reflects on music of all kinds and eras. He draws on vast cultural knowledge--the Bible, Greek mythology, early modern history, modern philosophy, the Holocaust, and more--to develop ten accessible treatises on music. In each of these small masterpieces the author exposes music's potential to manipulate, to mesmerize, to domesticate. Especially disturbing is his scrutiny of the role music played in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Quignard's provocative book takes on particular relevance today, as we find ourselves surrounded by music as never before in history."--Publisher.

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"Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities. The Hatred of Music is Quignard's masterful exploration of the power of music and what history reveals about the dangers it poses. From prehistoric chants to challenging contemporary compositions, Quignard reflects on music of all kinds and eras. He draws on vast cultural knowledge--the Bible, Greek mythology, early modern history, modern philosophy, the Holocaust, and more--to develop ten accessible treatises on music. In each of these small masterpieces the author exposes music's potential to manipulate, to mesmerize, to domesticate. Especially disturbing is his scrutiny of the role music played in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Quignard's provocative book takes on particular relevance today, as we find ourselves surrounded by music as never before in history."--Publisher.

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