Кристина Япова: „Звук и етос. Вариации върху тема от Боеций“
Kristina Yapova: Sound and Ethos. Variations on a Theme by Boethius

Summary/Abstract: The book of Kristina Yapova is a first attempt in Bulgarian musicology to explore the important issue of how we can speak about music without losing it in the process of speaking. In quest of the answers to this question the present study has chosen Boethius’s treatise “De institutione musica” as its starting point. The significance of this book is not only in the new knowledge it provides. It also offers an exciting journey into music as overcoming the subject – object connection in a new relationship “if you let the music sound through you – to the end – making you its own voice” by its principle of harmony. This relationship discloses “another Subject, and it is only in His power that the music of the world (mundana), the music of the man (humana) and the music, revealing Him (instrumentalis) exist.

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