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OPEN DAY FOR JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU PESCARA, 19th of JANUARY 2012
2012: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU AND MUSIC PART 6
My participation to this event concerns
a particular aspect of music which is tuning.
PROF. MARCO TIELLA ORGANOLOGIST
It’s unavoidable instruments get tuned because
they must be prepared before they are used.
Tuning as a topic has been developed since the 1400s
and Rousseau lived in a period in which
important discussions surrounded this subject.
There are several contemporaries we should quote
but the most revealing one is Rameau because he’s also
one of the most known musicians of that period.
I’ll present the details of this topic during my conference today.
At the moment it’s impossible to describe in words a Rousseau particular tuning.
We should work on an instrument in order to demonstrate
how ancient musicians used to prepare their ones.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau gave important contributions
through considerations based on psychological introspection
in which he recognises human and social weakness.
In spite of his questionable anthropological analysis,
he elaborated important ideas in sociology
and he was a real promoter of social equity and human equality.
Bearer of a humanist idealism, he nevertheless considered women
subordinate to men from the intellectual point of view.
As regards sociology, the “Social contract” is of course his masterwork.
It had, in fact, a remarkable success and influence
on some claims of the Revolution.
His political suggestions are inspired by Plato’s “Republic” and “Laws”.
According to his detractors his dream was not a libertarian state
but a totalitarian one, where people could be free from foreign occupation
but in which a concept of country, as an ethical state,
predominates over the individual.
Rousseau also wrote the “Eugene” and the “Eribert”, philosophical essays.
These two works, written during his formation,
are almost unknown and they were published
for the first time by Benedetto Croce in 1912.
VIOL: Giovanna Barbati HARPSICHORD: Massimo Salcito
NARRATOR: Fabio D’Onofrio TEXT: Massimo Salcito
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