{"product_id":"cantus-firmus","title":"Cantus Firmus","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease allow 16 working days to process before shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e7.5oz Black Shorts - 7\" Inseam\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e65% Poly 35% Cotton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eNT Issue 2 correspondence: \"Cantus Firmus\", p. 36–45\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-17_at_11.38.50_AM.jpg?v=1789663140\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 158\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCantus Firmus\u003c\/strong\u003e = Underlying Structure, Fixed Hymn, Sure Song\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.57.47_PM.png?v=1789610285\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eErnst Bloch:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe common endeavors of research workers and teachers require real community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe university, the \u003cem\u003euniversitas literarum\u003c\/em\u003e, the institutional totality of the various sciences, is no more than a proficient, particularly resplendent expression of community-hence the origin of the original guild designation universitas. In the process a not insignificant role fell to philosophy, which has long felt itself to be the conscience of the university. It is the science in which the consciousness of the totality lives and has to live. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStemming from times when the progressive division of labor produced by capitalism, and then the increasing and almost anarchistic specialization of vocations, was still unknown, philosophy was concerned above all with \u003cstrong\u003ethe unity\u003c\/strong\u003e of knowledge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe common melody\u003c\/strong\u003e, the substantive coloration of all learning, is its particular concern and the essential aspect of its method and subject.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen philosophy is doing its job, it offers that moving \u003cstrong\u003ecantus firmus\u003c\/strong\u003e which provides stability and direction, in which and about which \u003cstrong\u003ethe polyphony of knowledge moves\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cem\u003eTotum relucet in omnibus, omnia ubique \u003c\/em\u003e(the whole lights up again in all things; everything is everywhere), said Nicholas of Cusa in relation to Arabic philosophy; and both Leibniz and Hegel have made this same principle unforgettable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eD. Bonhoeffer: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 180\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eWhere the \u003cstrong\u003ecantus firmus\u003c\/strong\u003e is clear and plain, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecounterpoint can be developed to its limits. The two are “undivided and yet distinct.” \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Alright we got some problems\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe Gatekeeper in \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WAkvO-32py0\"\u003eKafka's The Trial\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.32.14_PM.png?v=1789608752\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \"How we gonna solve 'em?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Battle Between Carnival and Lent, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMolenaer, 1633  \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(\u003cem\u003ebellum omnium contra omnes\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ethe war of all against all)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Molenaer__Jan_Miense_-_Battle_Between_Carnival_and_Lent_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?v=1789608852\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Well, let's keep it simple\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"But, our life is complex\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eKandinsky, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKleine Welten (Small Worlds), 1922\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.37.50_PM.png?v=1789609154\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeleuze \u0026amp; Guatarri:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe role of the refrain has often been emphasized: it is territorial, a territorial assemblage. Bird songs: the bird sings to mark its territory. The Greek modes and Hindu rhythms are themselves territorial, provincial, regional. The refrain may assume other functions, amorous, professional or social, liturgical or cosmic: it always carries earth with it; it has a land (sometimes a spiritual land) as its concomitant; it has an essential relation to a Natal, a Native. A musical \"nome\" is a little tune, a melodic formula that seeks recognition and remains the bedrock or ground of polyphony (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ecantus firmus\u003c\/strong\u003e). \u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"But just as long as we connect.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eTed Nelson, Literary Machines\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.42.30_PM.png?v=1789609366\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"So we can move towards the next?\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eWorkers Councils and the Economics of a Self-Managed Society, Cornelius Castoriadis, 1972\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.43.32_PM.png?v=1789609431\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"But the future is us\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Trust me, it's us, in a circle\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the amphitheater on its own became a fortified settlement with four towers added during the medieval period. The structure encircled more than 200 houses, becoming a real town, with its public square built in the centre of the arena and two chapels, one in the centre of the building, and another one at the base of the west tower. (new within the shell of the old)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-09-16_at_8.49.42_PM.png?v=1789609801\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEA Gutkind: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe structure of society and of the town itself, and contemporary musical expression, develop in complexity side by side. In each case this development is focussed on a centre—the centre of the town and the\u003cstrong\u003e cantus firmus\u003c\/strong\u003e respectively. The parallel movement of the melody gives place more and more to polyphonic composition. At first it is only as a variation of the organism that the new accompanying voice develops then it takes on its own melody, its own rhythm, and finally its own text.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0642\/1590\/8412\/files\/Screen_Shot_2026-08-29_at_4.32.33_PM.jpg?v=1789623425\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBloch on music: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSocial tendencies themselves \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehave been reflected and have been uttered in sound material, far beyond the unchanging facts of nature and far beyond the merely romantic expressivo. No art is as socially conditioned as the supposedly spontaneous, indeed mechanically self-righteous art of music; it teems with historical materialism, precisely with the historical kind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 146\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is the consumer class and its mandate, it is the emotional and goal-world of the respective ruling class, which in each case becomes expressive in music. 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