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Ø𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐝 (𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝)
Civilisation
𝐏𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝟗𝟖:𝟒
“𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡: 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞.”
“𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡: 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞.”
𝟗 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
By the year 1700 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 have once more become articulate. For over a century the disorderly aftermath of the Reformation, followed by the dreary, interminable horrors of the Thirty Years War, had kept them from playing a part in the history of civilisation. Then peace, stability, the natural strength of the land, and 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, allowed them to add to the sum of European experience two shining achievements, one in music, the other in architecture. Of course the music is more important to us. In a period when poetry was almost dead, when the visual arts were little more than a shadow of what they had been, when the emotional life seemed almost to have dried up, music expressed the most serious thoughts and intuitions of the time, just as painting had done in the early sixteenth century. This chapter is primarily about music ; and some of the qualities of eighteenth-century music -its melodious flow, its complex symmetry, its decorative invention - are reflected in the architecture; but not its deeper appeal to the emotions. And yet the Rococo style has a place in civilisation. Serious-minded people used to call it shallow and corrupt, chiefly because it was intended to give pleasure; well, the founders of the American Constitution, who were far from frivolous, thought fit to mention the pursuit of happiness as a proper aim for mankind, and if ever this aim has been given visible form it is in Rococo architecture - the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of love.~~~Kenneth Clark: 𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. Ch.9 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.
By the year 1700 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 have once more become articulate. For over a century the disorderly aftermath of the Reformation, followed by the dreary, interminable horrors of the Thirty Years War, had kept them from playing a part in the history of civilisation. Then peace, stability, the natural strength of the land, and 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, allowed them to add to the sum of European experience two shining achievements, one in music, the other in architecture. Of course the music is more important to us. In a period when poetry was almost dead, when the visual arts were little more than a shadow of what they had been, when the emotional life seemed almost to have dried up, music expressed the most serious thoughts and intuitions of the time, just as painting had done in the early sixteenth century. This chapter is primarily about music ; and some of the qualities of eighteenth-century music -its melodious flow, its complex symmetry, its decorative invention - are reflected in the architecture; but not its deeper appeal to the emotions. And yet the Rococo style has a place in civilisation. Serious-minded people used to call it shallow and corrupt, chiefly because it was intended to give pleasure; well, the founders of the American Constitution, who were far from frivolous, thought fit to mention the pursuit of happiness as a proper aim for mankind, and if ever this aim has been given visible form it is in Rococo architecture - the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of love.~~~Kenneth Clark: 𝐂𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. Ch.9 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔.
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Psalms 98:4
“Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.”
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