
Birth of Tragedy #7: 18-21 (Alexandrianism)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Relationship Between Music and the Word and Image and the Tragic Myth and Faust
Nicha proposes tragedy as the solution to Faust right again because of the power of myth as embodied in tragedy. He also talks again how music that relationship between music and the word and image is sort of backwards from nicha's point of view but why tragedy gets it right. The tragic myth and the tragic hero intervened between our highest musical emotion and the music at bottom only as symbols of the most universal facts, which only music can speak so directly. If you were to experience tristan in azaldi could you do it without expiring an aspasmodic unharnessing of all the wings of the soul? Nicha writes with very effusive prose praising Wagner's music
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