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Philosophy of Music. Lecture 7. Homer, Iliad. He bursts upon them all, Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o’er the masts, and sing thro’ every shroud :
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Philosophy of Music Lecture 7
Homer, Iliad He bursts upon them all, Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swelled with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o’er the masts, and sing thro’ every shroud : Pale, trembling, tired the sailors freeze with fears, And instant death on every wave appears.
Longinus, On the sublime For the mind is naturally elevated by the true Sublime, and so sensibly affected with its lively strokes, that it swells in transport and an inward pride, as if what was only heard had been the product of its own invention.
Edmund Burke, On the beautiful and the sublime Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime.
The Handel Commemoration 1784 All The multitude of angels, with a ShoutLoud as from numbers without number
G.F. Handel, Joshua 1748 JohnMartin,Joshuacommandingthe sun tostand stillat Gibeon1816 The nations tremble at the dreadful sound, Heav’n thunders, tempests roar, and groans the ground.
Haydn, The Creation 1799 William Blake,The Ancient of Days1794 And God said “Let there be light”, and there was light.
Rossini, Guillaume Tell 1829 Richard Kissling,Statue of William Tell1895 Voici le jour!Pour nous c’est un signal d’alarmes. De victoire! Quel cri doit y répondre? Aux armes!
Meyerbeer, L’Africaine1865 Designs:Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph-François-Désiré Thierry ,Paris Opera 1865
Wagner, Götterdämmerung1876 Staging:Harry Kupfer,Bayreuth1991
The sublime arouses produces of Subject-matter Affective feeling The infinite The powerful evokes Reflective judgment Human creativity Human moral autonomy Human freedom