{"id":71,"date":"2020-02-25T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/?p=71"},"modified":"2020-02-25T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:45:28","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/2020\/02\/25\/roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you read the text, please, sit down, relax, press the link and enjoy some stock images and some music.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arthur Honegger, Pastorale d&#039;\u00e9t\u00e9\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4p2f3UTBcKI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What does it remind you of? Any names come to mind? Any particular styles, Nationalities even?<\/p>\n<p>To me the concept of Latin vs. German roots as the foundation of an \u201cinnate frenchness\u201d as echoed by both Ravel and Milhaud, is the least relatable The concept of \u201cRacine\u201d, roots, as the source for the behavioural aspect of one\u2019s ethnicity, is quite different when compared to the 2020 visual aspect that is associated with the construct of race. That your roots would affect the music, disregarding nurture completely, is a sentiment reflected in Ravel\u2019s statement about Arthur Honegger (in his lecture \u201cContemporary Music\u201d (1928). His French-born contemporary had made the \u201cfatal flaw\u201d of having Swiss parents and a couple of years of schooling at the conservatory in Z\u00fcrich<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The more I read about sources for <em>francit\u00e9 <\/em>in music the more I agree with Ernes Gellner\u2019s view on nationalism, at least when applied to turn-of-the-20<sup>th<\/sup>-century French music. Whatever aspect is exemplified, it is always as the other side of the coin of something that is considered German: What is French is everything that German music is not. If the melody is an aspect of <em>francit\u00e9 <\/em>in music, then short motifs are German. If chromaticism is German, then diatonicism is French and so forth. Gellner writes about how nationalist sentiment is awoken when the nationalist principle is threatened. The threat in this case being German influence in music, amplified by the two wars about 40 years apart and the general distaste for all things German as a result of this. What is excluded in the creation of <em>francit\u00e9 may<\/em> be more important than what is included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Arthur-Honegger\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Arthur-Honegger<\/a> [Accessed February 1st, 2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you read the text, please, sit down, relax, press the link and enjoy some stock images and some music. What does it remind you of? Any names come to mind? Any particular styles, Nationalities even? To me the concept of Latin vs. German roots as the foundation of an \u201cinnate frenchness\u201d as echoed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/performinghistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}