Hatred of Music

Zusatztext How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny? 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 Klappentext How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny? Zusammenfassung How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny?

Product details

• Authors: Pascal Quignard, Quignard Pascal
• Assisted by: Matthew Amos (Translation), Amos Matthew (Translation), Fredrik Ronnback (Translation), Fredrik Rönnbäck (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780300211382
• ISBN: 978-0-300-21138-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; The Margellos World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Theory of music & musicology, Theory of music and musicology