Posts Tagged ‘music’

  • Subject

    February 19th, 2024 | Art, Beauty | journalpulp | No Comments

    “There is no work of art without a subject,” said Ortega — and with him here I do not demur. Subject matter isn’t the only component of art, nor is it the most complicated, but it is the most fundamental. It is the component toward which all others are geared. Subject is what the artist presents. It […]

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  • Musical Pulp

    Musical Pulp

    January 22nd, 2012 | Music | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    A sonorous body produced by periodic vibrations. Hermann von Helmholtz defined music as. Without music, life would be a mistake. Said Nietzsche, a chronic insomniac whose eyesight was dire. Music is neither good or bad — to the deaf. Said Spinoza. Henriette Sontag, the soprano at the first performance of Beethoven’s Ninth, turned Beethoven around […]

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