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Nuvole barocche: Clouds as synesthetic metaphors across baroque poetry and music
Romance Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-04-08 , DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2021.1901524
Eugenio Refini 1
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Abstract

In his 1961 song “Nuvole barocche” (Baroque Clouds), Italian songwriter Fabrizio De André commented on the fascination exerted by colorful clouds at sunset and their artistic representation as canonized by the visual culture of the baroque, fittingly emblematized by the transience of clouds themselves. The domain of the visual is turned into that of the acoustic, triggering the synesthetic interaction of forms of sense perception, which are usually conceived as separate from one another. The song thus reminds us that the polysemous nature of clouds makes them particularly suitable for forms of artistic representation that, moving across mediums, blur the boundaries of sense perception. This essay looks at how such interplay of sensory layers actually works and to what extent it fits the rhetoric and poetics of the Baroque. In order to do so, I chase the sound of baroque clouds through arias and songs that play with the ambiguous semantics of meteorology and make the singing voice convey anxieties about topics as diverse as the course of time, the volatility of love, devotional and spiritual concerns. After framing the discussion in rhetorical terms, with a focus on metaphors and similes, the essay examines works by John Dowland, Francesca Caccini, Sigimsondo D’India, and George Frideric Handel in order to assess some of the ways in which the unstable nature of clouds lends itself to a kind of metaphoric code that is best described in synesthetic terms.



中文翻译:

Nuvole barocche:云作为跨越巴洛克诗歌和音乐的联觉隐喻

摘要

在他 1961 年的歌曲“ Nuvole barocche”(巴洛克式的云),意大利词曲作者法布里齐奥·德安德烈(Fabrizio De André)评论了日落时彩云的魅力及其被巴洛克视觉文化所规范的艺术表现,而云本身的短暂性恰如其分地象征着。视觉领域变成了听觉领域,触发了感官感知形式的联觉相互作用,这些形式通常被认为是彼此分离的。因此,这首歌使我们想起了云的多义性,使它们特别适用于艺术表现形式,这些表现形式在各种媒介之间移动,模糊了感官感知的边界。本文着眼于这种感官层的相互作用实际上是如何运作的,以及它在多大程度上符合巴洛克的修辞和诗学。为了做到这一点,我通过咏叹调和歌曲来追逐巴洛克云的声音,这些歌曲带有气象学的模糊语义,使歌声传达了关于时间流逝、爱的波动、虔诚和精神关切等不同话题的焦虑。在以修辞方式进行讨论后,重点放在隐喻和明喻上,这篇文章考察了约翰·道兰、弗朗西斯卡·卡奇尼、西吉姆森多·迪印度和乔治·弗里德里克·亨德尔的作品,以评估其不稳定性质的一些方式。云适用于一种最好用联觉术语来描述的隐喻代码。

更新日期:2021-05-28
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