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Music is the privileged access to will, inspiring Wagner's total art and Ring Cycle as a national form for unifying German desire.
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The Ride of the Valkyries is said to collapse time and space and unite listeners into one will.
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The Ride of the Valkyries is said to collapse time and space and unite listeners into one will.
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Jiang reads prehistoric monuments, animal-human pillars, figurines, flutes, and cave paintings as evidence that early religion was celebrated through art, music, and shamanic animal imagery.
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Jiang argues that the location of paintings in acoustically powerful cave spaces points to ritual use involving music, dance, and collective religious experience.
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"...achieve nirvana, you achieve enlightenment. This is a really important passage. Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of..."
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"...before movies. This is before cinema. So you can put in music, paintings, theatre, poetry, philosophy, everything together to create one total art that..."
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"But I'll put it in very simple terms. It's 15 hours, four parts. So there are people called the Rhine Maidens. These are river..."
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"As you can see, it's very powerful, right? It represents the unity of the will. So as people are watching this, they become united..."
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"Okay? Including in China, including in Europe. This is Gopalatepe. And you can see that this is a teal pillar. And it's meant to..."
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"...beginning of humanity, we were religious. We celebrated our religion through music and through art. And through shamanism. Okay? Does that make sense, guys?..."
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"...convinced that these paintings were part of a ritual, which included music, because we found musical instruments as well. Flutes, okay? So in other..."
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"...okay? While you're making this vase, if you are listening to music, While you're making this vase, if you are listening to music, if..."
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"...of the Iliad. He's speaking. And as he's speaking, it's like music to the listeners. It's beautiful. It's poetry. But it's beautiful. It's beautiful..."
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"...okay which is just myths and stories but also arts dance music song songs paintings and then of course you have science"
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"...we want to express this religion or the through art through music through dance and what I mean by religion I mean that we..."
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"they express themselves through their expression of religion through art architecture music dance and it's an amazing achievement um because these pillars okay they're..."
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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