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oapen-20.500.12657-302862024-03-25T09:51:28Z Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau' Diderot, Denis Hobson, Marian dialogue translation composers denis diderot satyre opera Charles Palissot de Montenoy Jean-Philippe Rameau Rameau's Nephew thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVP Musicians, singers, bands and groups thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVN Composers and songwriters thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy "In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways. Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique. This new edition includes: - Introduction - Original text - English translation - Embedded audio-files - Explanatory Notes - Interactive Material" 2018-04-03 00:00:00 2020-04-01T12:50:41Z 2020-04-01T12:50:41Z 2016 book 646755 OCN: 1030820388 2054-216X/2054-2178;2054-216X/2054-216X;2514- 9781909254909 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30286 eng Open Book Classics application/pdf n/a 646755.pdf http://www.openbookpublishers.com/reader/498 Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0098 10.11647/OBP.0098 23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8b 9781909254909 ScholarLed 262 open access
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"In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways. Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique.
This new edition includes: - Introduction - Original text - English translation - Embedded audio-files - Explanatory Notes - Interactive Material"
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