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| | Diderot: Rameau's Nephew (E-Text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | He is the nephew of that famous musician who delivered us from the plain song of Lully,* which we've been chanting for more than a century, and who wrote so much unintelligible visionary stuff and apocalyptic truths about the theory of music, none of which ever made sense either to him or anyone else. |
 | | He left us a certain number of operas where there is some harmony, scraps of song, some disconnected ideas, noise, flights, triumphal marches, lances, glories, murmurs, victories that leave one breathless, and dance tunes which will last forever. |
 | | Me, Rameau, nephew of the man who calls himself the Great Rameau, the man people see walking upright on the Palais Royal with his arms waving in the air, ever since Mr. |
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