Music as imitative art: from Cartesian aesthetics to the art of expressing passions

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https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.22.10

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Music. Imitative art. Passions. Melody. Harmony.

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The Quarrel of the Buffoons, which lasted from 1752 to 1754, and set the French operatic tradition against the Italian, serves as a backdrop to the article. Rameau was accused of being outdated, and his music too complicated, compared to the "simplicity" and "naturalness" of Pergolesi's La Serva Padronacomic. In the mid-1750s Rameau criticized the music entries Rousseau had written for the Encyclopédie, leading to a dispute with philosophers D'Alembert and Diderot. 

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2019-11-18 — Updated on 2019-11-18

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Sahd, L. F. (2019). Music as imitative art: from Cartesian aesthetics to the art of expressing passions. Argumentos - Revista De Filosofia, 11(22), 120–130. https://doi.org/10.36517/Argumentos.22.10

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