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Duck Family Values | — Affengedanken —

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I don’t know when it started to bother me; not anyhow until I was past the age of reading. Walt Disney’s Donald Duck. In its Dutch version,. There is a strange pattern of incompleteness in this family. Neither the grandmother, nor the rich uncle, nor Donald or his niece have living partners; and all the children (two sets of triplets) are orphans, of uncertain parentage. Her a non-relative, but this is not what I remember from my merry weekly. It also leaves her family name unexplained (a widow? Fiction&...

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On Wings and Wooden Shoes | — Affengedanken —

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On Wings and Wooden Shoes. Of Chopin’s 51 mazurka’s my favourite is Op. 24 Nr. 4. It starts with a broken octave F which shrinks in alternating semitone steps: two voices seeking to meet halfway, in a simpleminded, but musically weird and ambiguous pattern. If left to shuffle along the two would meet on the tritone B the musical nowhere. Just in time the bass steps in,. In the second contrasting section (D-flat major) the contralto steps forward,. I’ve projected the first four bars of the tipsy contralto...

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis | Filosofisch Luisteren

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. Explorations in Music History. Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. De voortzetting van Filosofisch Luisteren. Vraagstukken met uitgesproken filosofische aspecten: verbanden tussen muziek, kunst, literatuur, maatschappij en geest, geplaatst in een historische context. Voor 2016-2017 zijn de volgende thema’s gepland:. 1) Klanken van het land. Vogelzang, herdersmuziek, onweer : hoe componisten omgevingsgeluiden opnemen in hun muziek. Van Janequin tot Messiaen. Insch...

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Explorations in Music History | Filosofisch Luisteren

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. Explorations in Music History. Explorations in Music History. Lectures for those who want to deepen their understanding of music and cultural history. With many images and music examples. Explorations in Music History. Is a developing series of lectures about music and movement, opera and multimedia, modernity and modernism, how “evil” music can be, and other scorching topics. A provisional selection for 2017 includes the following:. Music and the visual arts.

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Lodewijk Muns PhD | Filosofisch Luisteren

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. Explorations in Music History. Nu en dan heb ik me ook bezig gehouden met compositie, en een klein aantal werken geschreven in een niet-tonaal (‘modern’) idioom. Pedrillo Botón. Behalve als docent aan de Universiteit Utrecht (muziekgeschiedenis) en gastdocent aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium (heuristiek), heb ik tien jaar gewerkt bij het Nederlands Muziek Instituut in Den Haag. In de laatste jaren is mijn activiteit vooral gericht op muziekwetenschappelijk onde...

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Philosophy and Music | Filosofisch Luisteren

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. Explorations in Music History. How it moves us,. Lectures for those who want to deepen their understanding of music and cultural history. With many images and music examples. Humans have been making music for at least 40.000 years. Long before they started to plant crops there was something as wondrously elusive as sounds which make us move, which touch us emotionally and give us inspiration. Do we miss something when we listen to Mozart with modern ears? How do vis...

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Filosofisch Luisteren | Filosofisch Luisteren

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Verkenningen in de Muziekgeschiedenis. Explorations in Music History. Drie lezingen over muziek en taal,. Mensen maken al meer dan 40.000 jaar muziek. Al lang voor ze begonnen de grond te bewerken en gewassen te planten was er zoiets wonderlijk ongrijpbaars als klanken die je in beweging brengen, die je ontroeren en inspireren. Missen we iets wanneer we naar Mozart luisteren met oren van nu? En waarom luisteren we eigenlijk? 1 Muziek en taal. Is muziek zelf een soort taal – ‘de taal van het gevoel’?

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Lodewijk Muns | — Affengedanken —

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Author Archives: Lodewijk Muns. Reverend Father Adam, Whence Didst Thou Get Music? What is the origin of music? And how does music relate to language? Scientific research into these questions is booming. Psychologists, neurologists, cognitive scientists, biologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and musicologists are in the origins business. Despite the fact that we’ll never have the kind of evidence that may lead to a scientifically valid answer. This sounds like a common sense idea, and it...

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A Hermaphrodite Virgin | — Affengedanken —

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Its slanted wall and its roof like a stranded ship I’ve known from pictures for most of my life. A hike through the Jura hills finally provided an opportunity to visit Le Corbusier’s famous chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, 15 km west from where the GR5 trail crosses the road to Belfort. Spent on Piano’s shelter for a dozen elderly nuns, the chapel’s state of disrepair is shocking. It also, maybe, reflects negatively upon the architect’s vision. Unlike so many buildings which gain charms ...In an...