The continuation of episode 16, featuring musical ego documents by Dowland and Froberger, black bile, depression and ‘sweet melancholy’, and the connection between melancholy, consolation and beauty.
00:00 Intro
00:36 Dowland: ever grieving
04:29 Froberger: memento mori
08:57 Black bile and sweet melancholy
13:50 That sinking, that melting: Burke
19:21 Fateful sensibility: Lacépède
226:45 Melancholy and loss
Music fragments
02:31 J. Dowland, Semper Dowland semper dolens (piano) 05:43 J.J. Froberger, Allemande from Suite No. 20 in D major FbWV 620 (piano)
13:04 L. Couperin, Pavane (Pavanne) in F-sharp minor (piano) 17:49 L. Couperin, Pavane (Pavanne) in F-sharp minor (piano)
22:00 Chr. W. von Gluck, Che farò senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice. Bernarda Fink, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs. Le Louvre des musiciens. Harmonia Mundi HMX2908977.78
25:29 J.S. Bach, Sarabande from Partita No. 6 in E minor BWV 830 (piano*)
*piano: Lodewijk Muns
Text sources
E. Burke. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. 2nd ed. London: Dodsley 1759.
R. Burton. The Anatomy of Melancholy. London: Crips & Lloyd 1652. Early English Books Online
E. de Lacépède. La poétique de la musique. Paris: Monsieur 1785. Gallica
Further references: L. Muns, Melancholy, Memory, and Music (1), Melancholy, Memory, and Music (2)
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