Retrospective Reflections
It is a historiographical commonplace to say that, in Western music, the “pleasure of the ear” as mentioned in this text’s epigraph might be a challenge. From the monk John of Salisbury, who opined in the twelfth century that the new polyphonic music at Notre Dame aroused “titillation between the l...
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Transposition
2021
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | It is a historiographical commonplace to say that, in Western music, the “pleasure of the ear” as mentioned in this text’s epigraph might be a challenge. From the monk John of Salisbury, who opined in the twelfth century that the new polyphonic music at Notre Dame aroused “titillation between the legs more readily than a sense of devotion in the brain”, to the American politician James P. Bradley who, in August 2020, was scandalised by the overt sexuality in “WAP”, a hip-hop video by Cardi B... |
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