Music and melancholy (2): Consolation and beauty from Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Beyond the Bony Labyrinth

Lodewijk Muns

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Music and melancholy (2): Consolation and beauty

28 minutes Posted Dec 5, 2024 at 12:00 am.

Intro

Dowland: ever grieving

Froberger: memento mori

Black bile and sweet melancholy

That sinking, that melting: Burke

Fateful sensibility: Lacépède

Melancholy and loss

J. Dowland, Semper Dowland semper dolens (piano*)

J.J. Froberger, Allemande from Suite No. 20 in D major FbWV 620 (piano*)

L. Couperin, Pavane (Pavanne) in F-sharp minor (piano*)

Chr. W. von Gluck, Che farò senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice. Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs. Le Louvre des musiciens. Harmonia Mundi HMX2908977.78

J.S. Bach, Sarabande from Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830 (piano*)

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The continuation of episode 16, featuring musical ego documents by Dowland and Froberger, black bile, depression and ‘sweet melancholy’, and the 18th-century philosopher Étienne de Lacépède on the connection between melancholy, consolation and beauty.

Music fragments

*piano: Lodewijk Muns

Text sources

E. Burke. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. 2nd ed. London: Dodsley 1759.

R. Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: Crips & Lloyd 1652. Early English Books Online https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/eebo/

E. de Lacépède. La poétique de la musique. Paris: Monsieur 1785. Gallica

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k114571v

Further references:

L. Muns, Melancholy, Memory, and Music (1) https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2020/04/10/melancholy-memory-and-music-1/

L. Muns, Melancholy, Memory, and Music (2) https://lodewijkmuns.nl/2020/04/30/melancholy-memory-and-music-2/

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