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AbstractChristoph Theobald has spent many years studying the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach from the perspective of a theologian, in collaboration with a musician. This article attempts to demonstrate how his “way of doing theology,” remaining ever respectful of the autonomy of the arts, makes him attentive to the sensible reality of musical works and to a genetic conception of their form from which it is possible to discern their “operation of style” as this idea is outlined by Merleau-Ponty. The author shows how the emergence of the notion of style in the field of aesthetics led him to “conceive the Christian mystery as ‘a style in relation with other styles' that engenders a relation to beauty altogether specific and unique.”
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This historical study enquires into the theatricality of horror films from the perspective of its origins on the stage. It focuses in particular on the relationship between film and spectacular nineteenth-century attractions such as the phantasmagoria and the melodrama, taking into account theoretical discourses around music's role in them. Hanns Eisler's and Theodor Adorno's central text Komposition für den Film, too often reduced to a one-sided critique of mass culture, serves as the theoretical foundation of this historical enquiry. Three musical strategies are identified and discussed from the point of view of their historical importance and aesthetic implications : the leitmotif, dissonance and repetition. While the article focuses on the early years of the twentieth century, from early cinema to classical Hollywood cinema, it also throws out ideas for addressing the post-1960 period. The profound singularity of the “new horror film,” as it was seen at the time, is thus partially put into new light by placing it in historical context.
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The deterioration of the environment, which is manifested by a worrying loss of all forms of diversity within the living world, including the diversity of sounds. Sound ecology (Schafer, 1977), the poor relation of all current ecological struggles, is nevertheless an important marker of ecological upheaval. Offering new generations an education in and through sound would allow them to apprehend the world through sound (Barbanti, 2016). By perceiving sound in its diversity, we connect our own listening to that of others and to that of the world, we thus become more aware of our environment, which encourages the adoption of a responsible lifestyle and more globally, the reconstruction of the network of person-society-environment (sound) relationships at the individual, community and biospheric scales (Sauvé, 1997).
Keywords: écologie sonore, pollution sonore, pédagogie du sonore, éducation à l'écoute, prévention auditive, sound ecology, noise pollution, sound pedagogy, listening education, hearing prevention