(anonymous:Mercure de France in May 1734 (‘Lettre de M*** à Mlle*** sur l’origine de la musique’)
One takes its melody from the natural sounds of our throat and from the accents of the human voice, which speaks to concern others with what touches us, always without grimace, always without effort, almost without art. We shall call this songful music [la musique chantante]. The other aims to surprise by the boldness of its sounds and passes for song while pulsating with speed and noise [veut surprendre par la hardiesse des sons & passer pour chanter en mesurant des vitesses & du bruit]; we call it Baroque music [la musique Barroque].
(Noel Antoine Pluche, 1746)
J.-J. Rousseau ventured a definition in his Dictionnaire de musique (Paris, 1768): ‘A baroque music is that in which the harmony is confused, charged with modulations and dissonances, the melody is harsh and little natural, the intonation difficult, and the movement constrained’
(from New Grove Dictionary of Music)
sonogram of Galaxies Symphony I - Andromeda, shows its obvious and naïfe structure: ABA' form: stars, gas, dust and dark matter; halo-disk, spiral arms and bulge
