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RIP George Steiner (e o mistério da música)

No início do mês, faleceu o famoso crítico literário, filósofo, ensaísta, romancista e educador franco-americano George Steiner (1929-2020).
Vez ou outra, Steiner privilegiava também a nós, musicófilos, expressando a sua paixão pela música. Em 2010, à ocasião das NEXUS Conferences, no Concertgebouw de Amsterdã (sede da famosa orquestra holandesa), Steiner palestrava sobre o tema: “What’s Next for the West?” (“O Que Vem a Seguir para o Ocidente?”), e encerrou a sua apresentação com um belo discurso sobre o mistério da música. Que um dos maiores críticos literários da atualidade tenha dito que a música lhe parece superior à literatura como “força de uma possibilidade transcendente” não é coisa que Euterpe poderia ignorar e, há algum tempo, postamos uma bela montagem deste vídeo (infelizmente não mais disponível) em nossa página no Facebook.
Compartilhamos agora o vídeo original, portanto, como homenagem ao mestre, com uma tradução logo abaixo por nossa cortesia.
Música, o mistério da música. O que Nietzsche chamou tão corretamente de o mysterium tremendum. O mysterium tremendum do último ato de Tristão [e Isolda], e tantos outros casos: pode ser uma Étude de Chopin, uma frase ou mais em Mozart, que nos fala que há algo além, que paradoxalmente pertence a nós profundamente, mas que de algum modo toca em um significado universal de impossibilidade. Que não somos apenas um conjunto fisiológico eletro-químico e neural, que há mais na consciência do que fiação eletrônica. A música para mim parece, mais do que a literatura, a grande força, a esperança de uma possibilidade transcendente.
Essa é a razão pela qual é vitalmente importante que nossas crianças tenham acesso, desde a mais tenra idade, a boa música. Eu soo como um velho chato reacionário, e não me desculpo por isso, mas nada me aterroriza mais do que a exclusão de música séria das vidas de milhões de crianças pequenas: a substituição de muitas formas de música pelo horror de barulho ordenado, pelo barbarismo de barulho ordenado, a derrocada ensurdecedora de não deixar uma criança encontrar boa música, de não lhe ensinar um instrumento, se possível, de não lhe ensinar a cantar, se possível.
Houve um tempo na vida diária, no século XIX e começo do século XX na Europa, em que apresentações amadoras eram uma realização natural de pessoas educadas. Não precisava ser muito bom, não precisava ser muito grande, mas era parte de se reunir e estar em contato com aquele mysterium tremendum do transcendental. Se levarem isso embora de nós, estaremos realmente em apuros. Não acho que conseguirão. Durante os piores períodos de despotismo e tirania, pessoas podiam aprender partituras de cor. Mesmo quando a música era proibida, ela ainda podia ser confiada à memória. A música é algo muito difícil de se censurar – sim, ela pode ser interrompida, ela pode ser suprimida, músicos podem ser caçados, e perseguidos, e torturados. Mas, ainda, ela está lá, e sempre o seu estranho mistério permanece.
O Concertgebouw é um lugar para se lembrar dos últimos concertos daquele gênio muito ambíguo, [Wilhelm] Furtwängler. A luz caía regularmente e temos gravações em que você ouve o tiroteio da artilharia russa se aproximando de Berlim. Em uma gravação de Beethoven e uma de Haydn daquele tempo, tocados no escuro, as pessoas na plateia, sabendo que estavam condenadas a um destino horrível…, e não há gravações ou interpretações, que eu conheça, maiores daquela música. Há algo na música que é muito mais forte mesmo nas nossas maiores apresentações, a música em certo sentido nos toca, somos tocados por ela. Isso não significa que haverá consenso sobre os seus significados, não significa que não continuaremos debatendo ferozmente sobre a escolha de um andamento lento de uma sinfonia de Bruckner para marcar a morte do Führer. Temos uma gravação e ela também é fantástica, assim como outras gravações excelentes.
Por muitos e muitos anos, eu tentava entender por que a música não diz “não” em certas ocasiões. Dachau, como vocês sabem, fica nos arredores de Munique, muito próxima, e os trens com as pessoas morrendo dentro deles de sede e de fome a caminho para Dachau costumavam passar não muito longe da sua grande sala de concerto. Nessa sala, [Walter] Gieseking apresentava o seu ciclo de Debussy, e bons críticos dizem que nunca houve uma interpretação superior de Debussy. E a minha pergunta era, para estudantes alemães – e comecei a perguntá-la imediatamente após a Guerra –, para crianças de escolas alemãs, por que a música não disse “não”? – o que é uma pergunta sem sentido. Mas é uma pergunta sem sentido? Ainda não sei a resposta. Poderia a música ter se recusado a ser tocada? É claro que poderia. Poderia ser tocada de modo errado pelo menos? Poderia Gieseking tocar notas erradas pelo menos? Não tocou.
Então o mistério permanece, mas também permanece a forte e urgente esperança de que não deixaremos que nos levem embora essa experiência sobrepujante, esse privilégio de existir, que é a grande música.
Obrigado.
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Scotland Traditional Music

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Hungarian Gypsy Music

The quintessentially Spanish flamenco is to a very large extent the music (and dance, or indeed the culture) of the Romani people of Andalusia. Apart from Romani music for local use, in Eastern Europe a separate Romani music originated for entertainment at parties and celebrations. This music drew its themes from Hungarian, Romanian, Russian and other sources. Later on it gained popularity in Western Europe, where many Romani orchestras were active, playing sophisticated melodies of East European origin. Most Romani music is based on the folk music of the countries where the Romani went through or settled. Local music is adopted and performed – usually instrumental – and, slowly, it is transformed into Romani styles, which are usually more complex than the original styles. In its turn, Romani music has greatly influenced the local music.
Traditional Music Channel is for everyone who has a passion for music.
Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Carpathian and Balkan Music

The largest range is the Tatras in Poland and Slovakia. A major part of the western and northeastern Outer Eastern Carpathians in Poland, Ukraine, and Slovakia is traditionally called the Eastern Beskids. Section of the Carpathians within borders of Ukraine is commonly known as the Ukrainian Carpathians. Classification of eastern sections of the Carpathians is particularly complex, since it was influenced by several overlapping traditions. Terms like Wooded Carpathians, Poloniny Mountains or Eastern Beskids are often used in varying scopes by authors belonging to different traditions.
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Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Turkish Sufi Ney Music

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Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Japanese Geisha Music

The dances are accompanied by traditional Japanese music. The primary instrument is the shamisen. This shamisen, originating in Okinawa, is a banjo-like three-stringed instrument that is played with a plectrum. It has a very distinct, melancholy sound that is often accompanied by flute. All geisha must learn shamisen-playing, though it takes years to master. Along with the shamisen and the flute, geisha also learned to play a ko-tsuzumi, a small, hourglass-shaped shoulder drum, and a large floor taiko (drum). Some geisha would not only dance and play music, but would write beautiful, melancholy poems. Others painted pictures or composed music.
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Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Music and Dances from the Balkans

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Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Pākīpika Hema Folk Choir - Oceania Bora Bora South Sea Music

Internationally, Polynesian music is mostly associated with twinkling guitars, grass skirts and beautiful relaxing sounds, Hawaiian hula and other tourist-friendly forms of music. While these elements are justifiably a part of Polynesian history and Polynesian culture, there is actually a wide variety of music made in the far-flung reaches of Polynesia.
Traditional Music Channel is for everyone who has a passion for music.
Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our productions of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
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Balkan Gypsy Music

The quintessentially Spanish flamenco is to a very large extent the music (and dance, or indeed the culture) of the Romani people of Andalusia. Apart from Romani music for local use, in Eastern Europe a separate Romani music originated for entertainment at parties and celebrations. This music drew its themes from Hungarian, Romanian, Russian and other sources. Later on it gained popularity in Western Europe, where many Romani orchestras were active, playing sophisticated melodies of East European origin. Most Romani music is based on the folk music of the countries where the Romani went through or settled. Local music is adopted and performed – usually instrumental – and, slowly, it is transformed into Romani styles, which are usually more complex than the original styles. In its turn, Romani music has greatly influenced the local music.
Traditional Music Channel is for everyone who has a passion for music.
Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
Traditional Music Channel © All Rights Reserved
Greek Music & Dances - Popular Folk Songs from Greece

Dhimotika tragoudhia are accompanied by clarinets, guitars, tambourines and violins, and include dance music forms like syrtó, kalamatianó, tsámiko and hasaposérviko, as well as vocal music like kléftiko. Greek folk music is found all throughout Greece, Cyprus and several regions of Turkey. The island of Cyprus and several regions of Turkey are home to long-standing communities of Greeks in Turkey with their own unique styles of music. Nisiotika is a general term denoting folk songs from the Greek islands, especially the Aegean Islands. Ikariótikos is a traditional type of dance, and also the name of its accompanying type of singing, originating in the Aegean island of Ikaria. The Cretan lyra is the dominant folk instrument on the island of Creta; it is a three-stringed bowed instrument similar to the Byzantine Lyra. It is often accompanied with laouto (laoúto), which is similar to both an oud and a lute. The violin is used also in Cretan music.
Traditional Music Channel is for everyone who has a passion for music.
Music is an expression of human creativity. UNESCO reports that among all the performing arts, music is the most universal and is found in every society, most often as an integral part of other performing art forms and other domains of intangible cultural heritage.
Traditional forms of music are considered carriers of cultural heritage because they represent expressions and traditions transferred through generations of a community.
With recordings from more than hundred nations our collection of traditional music offers a staggering diversity of our humanity.
Traditional Music Channel © All Rights Reserved