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Lithuanian melody from a folk wedding song, with which Stravinsky, in The Sacred Spring, paints "pictures of pagan Russia":
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- Dec 10, 2021
- 1 min
The possibility of thinking sound before sound
Anatoly Ryasov on sound in silent films, 'Barely audible hum: an introduction to the philosophy of sound' (translated from Russian): 'In...
- Nov 23, 2021
- 1 min
Sound as a phenomenon
Sound as a phenomenon, not the quality of an object, in a deafening passage from Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying'. And the listener as the...
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
A rioting invasion of soundless life
Silence as a violent, belligerent force in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness': 'We stopped, and the silence driven away by the stamping...
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
Sound as a rainbow
'Roger Scruton (another rare example of a philosopher paying attention to the problem of the audible) radicalised the view of sounds as...
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