February 8, 2006

  • For Grammy Night

    From A Mass for Lucero:

    "To the two gods of art, Apollo and Dionysus, we owe our recognition
    that... there is a tremendous opposition, as regards both origins and
    aims, between the Apolline art of the sculptor and the non-visual,
    Dionysiac art of music."
    -- The Birth of Tragedy, by Friedrich Nietzsche, Penguin, 1993, page 14

    "Melody, then, is both primary and universal." (Author's italics)
    -- Nietzsche, op. cit., page 33

    "...in so far as he interprets music in images, he himself lies amidst the peaceful waves of Apolline contemplation...."
    -- Nietzsche, op. cit., page 35

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    Apolline Contemplation

    From The Miracle of the Bells, by Russell Janney, Prentice-Hall, 1946, page 333--

    "He was singing softly:
    'A pretty girl--
     is like a melody---- !'
     But that was always
     Bill Dunnigan's
     Song of Victory....
     Thus thought the...
     press agent for
    'The Garden of the Soul.'"