The intricate graphics for this release, featuring quotations of everyone from Aristotle to Gilles Deleuze, may make you wonder if your background in philosophy is sufficient for you to listen, but have no fear: the music is delightful, often revelatory, and even fun. The title La morte della Ragione, or The Death of Reason, comes from a poem by Petrarch ("The senses reign, and reason is dead"), interestingly echoed at the beginning of the program by a 16th century anonymous Italian pavane. After that you get instrumental ...
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The intricate graphics for this release, featuring quotations of everyone from Aristotle to Gilles Deleuze, may make you wonder if your background in philosophy is sufficient for you to listen, but have no fear: the music is delightful, often revelatory, and even fun. The title La morte della Ragione, or The Death of Reason, comes from a poem by Petrarch ("The senses reign, and reason is dead"), interestingly echoed at the beginning of the program by a 16th century anonymous Italian pavane. After that you get instrumental music in a loose chronological ordering, showing the increasing emancipation of instrumental genres from vocal models. One step is the construction of multiple instrumental versions of a vocal model, shown here with the performance of four different versions by Alexander Agricola of the popular chanson De tous biens plaine of Hayne van Ghizeghem. Another was the appearance of abstract instrumental pieces, especially common in England (one major strength of the program here is that it...
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