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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 m...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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A Margellos world republic of letters book
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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 description. |
| Item Description: | Originally published in French as La haine de la musique, 1996. |
| Carrier Form: | 207 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780300211382 (hardback) : 0300211384 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | ML3800 |
| CLC: | J60-02 |
| Call Number: | J60-02/Q66 |
| Contents: | Tears of Saint Peter -- It so happens that ears have no eyelids -- On the subject of the bonds between sound and night -- Song of the Sirens -- Louis XI and the musical pigs -- Hatred of music -- Res, Eochaid, Eckhart -- To disenchant -- On the end of the liaisons -- Translators afterword. |