The video is about different styles of musical scores and it interested me because some are so close to my idea of poetry. I have in the past toyed with similar ideas. Words somehow no longer seem adequate to express some thoughts and almost all conventional poetic forms now feel overused and banal.
Culture has steadily moved towards the visual, the novel largely eclipsed by film, and I don't see that poetry should be the exception.
I did find the narration of the movie a little irritating, but that aside, I found some of the scores themselves fascinating and sometimes beautiful.
The clip was from the Brain Pickings newsletter and many of you may also subscribe to it - it's well worth it - and so not much here will be news to you.
One other Brain Pickings link, while we are on the topic of poetry.
Poetry in scientific papers.
Finally a quick apology to Jill. The connection between tarantism and monosandalism is not as clear as I thought it was. - Can't trace my original sources - and many illustrations do show tarantists with two shoes. Later the tarantella became a folk dance and lost the cult associations; so one has to look only at very early prints.
The picture below known as Epileptic Women by Peter Bruegel the Elder is an interesting example and shows the women wearing shoes. But though Bruegel spent time in Italy he was Flemish, and what he drew may be from memory and so not entirely accurate and a true picture of the tarantella.
The link with Mithras* seems stronger and the monosandalism link probably comes that way
That's done, now I can finish my coffee.
"Mystic Cults in Magna Graecia By Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston
Looks good but limited access online