Въпросът „кой е музикус“ и отговорите на музикалната история
The Question of Who is a Musicus and the Answers of the History of Music

Summary/Abstract: The question of who is a musicus is formulated by Boethius in De institutione musica. He, however, is not the first who clarified what the concept of musicus stands for. Plato and after him Aristoxenus gave their explanations about the requirements that a person worthy of the title “musicus” should meet. These requirements show significant differences one to another as well as to the ones outlined by the music theorists after Boethius. The present study is an attempt to 1) bring forward the constant core around which the concept of musicus is build (namely reason as an idea and value); 2) trace the changes that took place in the content of this concept through history up to the time when it recedes into the past; and 3) detect hidden resources in this same history that allow for reason to act in a way different to the one described by musicuses themselves in their writings.

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