THE ORETICIANS OF STYLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES (1): BOETHIUS
THE ORETICIANS OF STYLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES (1): BOETHIUS

Summary/Abstract: In the Middle Ages, the stylistic awareness in the period of up to Ars Antiqua is investigated by several personalities: BOETHIUS, CASSIODORUS, JOHANNES DE GROCHEO and JOHANNES DE MURIS.Along with Cassiodorus, Boethius supported classifications of different types of music in mundane (worldly) and coelestis (angelic, sphere music), in human (harmony within man, corruption of the soul) and instrumentalis (music performed by the natural instrument - voice - and man-made instruments). At this point, we focus on exploring the ideas formulated in Boethius De institutione musica (Book 1), the most important theoretician of the medieval times, involved not only in music, but also as a writer, a specialist of the plastic and the speculative arts, and a politician in the country’s senate.

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