| PAGES | 208 |
| SERIES | Argumentos |
| PUBLICATION | 06/11/2024 |
SERIES:Argumentos
A delightful journey in search of the traces that melancholy has left in classical music.
The author explores the relationship between a musical form and the emotional reactions it evokes, specifically melancholy. Organised into three the- matic axes from the 16th century to the present day: the artist’s expression of melancholy, its representation, and the reaction it causes in the listener. The essay analyses the pieces with explicit references to melancholy in titles, letters, or other written documents or those described as melan- cholic in their time. He argues that the understan- ding of melancholy remains constant but is expres- sed differently over time. His approach departs from purist musicological orthodoxy, using extra- musical descriptions and broadening the reader’s scope.
| PAGES | 208 |
| SERIES | Argumentos |
| PUBLICATION | 06/11/2024 |
ROGER BARTRA (Mexico City, 1942) has a PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris and is currently an Emeritus Researcher at the UNAM. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California San Diego, Johns Hopkins, Pompeu Fabra, Rutgers, Stanford, and Wisconsin, as well as at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, among other places. He has published books about European mythologies such as El salvaje en el espejo, El salvaje artificial, and Las redes imaginarias del poder político; about the national identity crisis, such as La jaula de la melancolía and La sangre y la tinta; about the myth of melancholy in the Western world, such Cultura y melancolíaand El duelo de los ángeles; and about the links between cultural heritage and neural networks, such as Antropología del cerebro.
