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From a violin history perspective, our understanding of Saint-Georges’ career is unfortunately limited by incomplete and scattered information. In this article, I explore three main questions related to Saint-Georges, two of which are hypothetical. First, I question whether a Rondeau by Saint-Georges could be connected to contemporary Caribbean contradance music. Second, I consider whether Saint-Georges’ prolonged absence from the repertoire can be attributed to his relative position within the French Violin School. Finally, after noticing similar-sounding passages in Saint-George’s symphonies concertantes from 1778-1779 and Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E-flat (K. 364) of 1779, I wonder whether Mozart drew inspiration from Saint-Georges’ music—and, if so, how he could have adapted it for his own purposes
Keywords: Joseph Bologne de Saint-George, école française de violon, musical life in Paris (1760-1800), symphonie concertante, musique des Caraïbes, French Violin School, symphonie concertante, Joseph Bologne de Saint-George, vie musicale à Paris (1760-1880), Caribbean music
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Not all utopias are truly imaginative, yet minor ones can be instructive or amusing. This article explores the hierarchy-obsessed French Antangil as well as some minor English ones so as to deduce further what so entranced so many about Nowhere’s possibilities. None is as radical as Utopia itself—nor as intelligent. They do, however, show the uses to which a “utopia” can be put. After a glance at Antangil this article moves to a letter from the king of Utopia and thence to Edward Howard’s royalist drama Six Days in a New Utopia (1671), an interesting failure on stage. After a few glances at other utopias the article ends with a grimly amusing avian debate concerning the desire of foreign (French) canaries to settle in Utopia (England), where they will be safe from a persecutory eagle (Louis XIV). Utopia is “nowhere,” but it is a useful nowhere.
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AbstractIn The Nomos of the Earth, Carl Schmitt presents an account of the end of the epoch of European public law, and the state that it supported, which has received little attention. Yet Schmitt's account serves to illustrate broader issues involved in the periodization of international relations. This article begins by pointing out the comparative neglect of periodization in international relations before turning to a critical assessment of Schmitt's account in The Nomos of the Earth. It concludes by suggesting how Schmitt's flawed account can help us to understand the wider significance of periodization in international relations.
Keywords: Carl Schmitt, époques historiques, périodisation, nomos, Carl Schmitt, periodization, epochal change, nomos