Abstract
The article aims at analyzing the relationship between popular song and Dionysian music taking into account Nietzsche´s metaphysical and musicological considerations inThe birth of tragedy. It seeks to show Nietzsche´s reasons for the importance of popular song to the development of the Greek arts, which culminate in tragedy. Indicating how the union between sound and words takes a decisive role on this development, it hopes to exhibit Nietzsche´s theories about the subject within his first writings, in order to maintain, afterwards, that his latter self-critique allows us to amplify his musical ideas and thus to think about the musical context in 20th Century.
Keywords
popular song; folk song; music; Dionysian; art