Nietzsche on Dithyrambic Music

Nietzsche on Dithyrambic Music presents the theory that Nietzsche’s magnum opus, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, is a dithyrambic tragedy, that it is composed in the dithyramb, and that it represents the world’s only existing composition of dithyrambic music. Nietzsche invented dithyrambic drama. It is an entirely new art form in which no one has any experience whatsoever. It is so new, so unfamiliar, and so foreign that no one has even figured out how to read it. After its publication in 1883, it quickly became a literary enigma and remained that way for more than a century, until now in 2021. In fact, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a “map” of an inner drama, a willful contest, between the conscience and those parts of it that have turned bad. And learning how to read that map requires an education, which I have tried to provide with two earlier publications, The Birth of Dionysia (2020) and Dionysian Metaphysica (2020). In this publication, my goal is to explain a concept of dithyrambic music, which is, in fact, a manifestation of music as we know it but, in this very unusual instance, in literary form. And just as someone who cannot read music would never be able to render the notes in a musical composition, neither would a reader who cannot read dithyrambic music render it sensible either. This book attempts to teach you how to read dithyrambic music.