A musica sob a perspectiva critica de Rousseau : uma analise da carta sobre a musica francesa / One analysis form letter about french music

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2008

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Published in Paris in the 1753 during "Guerre des Bouffons", the Lettre sur Ia Musique Française by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, although to refere to tradictional dispute fonned around the paralIel between the french music and the italian music, disagree itself of the majority of the text published in the age referring to subject. The Lettre writed by Rousseau bring a original study esthetic that attribute at characteristics peculiar of the language the melody function of the music, affirming to depend this, then, the beauty of the composition. This esthetic perspective assumed by Rousseau to sustain itself in his theory of the unity melody that establishs another music controversy, this time between the preference gived to melody or to hannony in a composition. If the theory exposed by Rousseau in the Letttre to finish to desqualify the music and the french taste is, over alI, in the figure Jean-Philippe Rameau that falIs again the author s . critique causing a esthetic rupture with the tradition of the french music. The objective this research is the investigation the conceptions and principIes used by Rousseau in the Lettre standing out her importance not only under the history aspect but mainly by philosophic aspect, once the Rousseau s text finds out reflections in others works of the author. With the appendix we present a translation to portuguese for the Lettre sur Ia Musique Française, text that itself shows indispensable to knowledge of the Rousseau s music theory and the esthetic valors that involvement

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french philosophy filosofia francesa music theory teoria musical

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