Abstract:The complex relationship between music, politics and secularization requires to clarify first the very nature of music. It is the purpose of this article to figure out to what extent music, as a sound...The complex relationship between music, politics and secularization requires to clarify first the very nature of music. It is the purpose of this article to figure out to what extent music, as a sound art, can endorse a political and religious significance and be regarded as a fully social and historical activity. With this perspective, and beginning by a brief theory of musical signs and signification, it concentrates more precisely on two moments of musical history, the birth of opera in the early 17th century and the Romantic revolution in 1830. The study of Ariane’s lamento by Monteverdi and two pieces for piano by Liszt intend to demonstrate that music takes an active part to ideological debates and produces a sound language where politics meets poetry.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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