Music: A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought

ISBN-13: 9781500691011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 440 str.

Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta

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Music - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta is a fascinating journey to the ancient Mesopotamia to our days, unveiling unexpected connections between composers of different periods and, possibly even more interesting, how the history of music can reveal us a history of ideas, a continuous metamorphosis of mentalities. The Italian philosopher Dario Evola says in his introduction: "The author constructs a grid of thought on concepts and artistic experiences relinking a seemingly distant past with a present which, however, becomes distant, invisible. Have Pythagoras, Giordano Bruno, the new physics of Heisenberg and Niels Bohr some relation with music? Find out by reading, like a novel, these pages Is there a relation between Mozart and Beethoven? Yes, they met The concept of 'indeterminacy' of Cage and Tudor, the creative experience at Black Mountain College, Merce Cunningham, are all closely linked by a common thread that brings us back to Duchamp and Artaud. Frank Zappa studied Edgard Varese. We will discover then how Debussy, Ravel, Satie and Russolo are related to each other. Buckminster Fuller said that it was pointless to fight against reality, one should invent something that would make the present obsolete It is this, in fact, the deep, accurate, ironic and creative work of the artist ." The book, with more than 200 hundred illustrations, has a preface by the American writer, journalist and philosopher Jon Rappoport, and introduction by Dario Evola. To Jon Rappoport, Emanuel Pimenta "is a philosopher of music and a musician of philosophy. I could say: he circumnavigates his subjects from the inside out, and he penetrates them while floating at a distance of thousands of miles in space." It is a book to be read like a novel, as says Evola."