Aussi vite que possible…

Virtuosity is at the heart of musical performance, but it has an ambivalent status. It is both the acme of art, and a dangerous temptation. Drawing on a comparison between different genres, I would like to suggest that beyond the classical opposition between body, entertainment, collective trance mu...

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Main Author: Antoine Hennion
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative 2011-06-01
Series:Ateliers d'Anthropologie
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/8764
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description Virtuosity is at the heart of musical performance, but it has an ambivalent status. It is both the acme of art, and a dangerous temptation. Drawing on a comparison between different genres, I would like to suggest that beyond the classical opposition between body, entertainment, collective trance music, on a side, and written music that focuses on the composition of a work and is largely developed by opposing virtuoso seduction, on the other, it is possible to give virtuosity its ability to express a musical truth by turning it into an aesthetic of performance: less a technical feat than a necessary positioning of the work in the fragility of a present that is always to be recovered.
topic artwork
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technique
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