The Power and Value of Music
Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory
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Andreas Kramarz
After systematically assembling and assessing the value-carrying characterizations of music in poetic literature, the author reviews all noteworthy Greek and Latin writings which enlighten musical «ethos» from the theoretical-philosophical perspective. He then carries the intuitions of the ancients into our time by proposing a coherent model to explain the relationship between music, ethos, and emotions based on the results of contemporary research in the disciplines of music psychology and philosophy. The concept of harmony, understood as the appropriate measure or as the balance of opposites and so central to the reflections of the ancient authors, plays a key role in shedding light on the value and impact, both positive and negative, of music in human existence.
This book provides the most comprehensive overview available about the effect and ethos of music in antiquity and discusses many related questions of scholarly interest. It includes numerous references provided in the original language with translation, ample empirical material for further research, and an extensive bibliography.
Index of Subjects
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aesthetic experience 422, 434, 449, 452
aesthetics 15, 21, 55–60, 83, 105, 136, 138, 143, 146, 165, 167, 186, 190, 193, 202, 205, 213, 223f, 228, 233, 249f, 259, 263, 270, 275, 279, 298, 309, 319, 352, 371, 375, 384, 387, 393f, 399, 410, 417, 434f, 452, 462f
affections. See emotions
appropriateness 139–142, 162, 165, 194f, 202, 204, 206, 221f, 230, 233f, 246, 248, 255, 257–259, 263f, 270, 272, 280, 288, 315, 321f, 325, 327f, 336f, 341, 343, 352, 367, 373, 379, 399, 417, 437, 439, 446, 448, 451, 457, 462, 464
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