Malditas palabras - Chiantore, Luca (Barcelona Musikeon, 2021)
'Malditas palabras' was written during the long months of confinement in 2020, and is directly linked to Chiantores artistic research project In-Versions (www.in-versions.com). Moving away for a moment from the musicological research that characterized his previous 'Historia de la técnica pianística' (2001), 'Beethoven al piano' (2010, 2nd ed.: 2020) and 'Tone Moves' (2019), this monograph is based on the vocabulary used in the world of music (particularly European classical music) to highlight the fragility of most musical terminology, arguing about the metaphysical halo that frequently permeates it and denouncing the ethnocentrism implicit in the claims of superiority of a certain music over another. With an agile and scathing tone, sometimes ironic and often provocative, Luca Chiantore reveals his most recent ideas in this book full of personal memories and intimate reflections that will surprise those who know his other writings and at the same time bring the general public closer to the dynamic and unconventional of his lectures and his concerts.
Keywords: Music philosophy and esthetics; Terminology; Spain