The Spirit of Music III: The Tragic Dionysian and Apollonian Counterbalances
Dale’s essay about Nietzsche and the spirit of music reflected on the ways we must re-learn to listen to music to more skillfully attune to our lives; failing to do so, we experience decadence, or “de-cadence.”
In part II, I followed Dale’s essay by wondering about the specific connection between music and Nietzsche’s interest in writing about tragedy— …
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