Muzyka a prawda. Ilustracyjność w kontekście estetyki muzyki
Music and the truth. Illustrativeness in context music aesthetics

Author(s): Joanna Barska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Cognitive Psychology, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: musical rhetoric; sound imitation; aesthetics music
Summary/Abstract: The author's deliberations concern the issue of Renaissance-Baroque musical rhetoric. The sixteenth century in music is the development of the aesthetics of sound imitation (imitazionedella natura), which stabilizes the relationship between the word and music. The function of representing, inspired, becomes the main aspect of many works the ancient idea of ​​properly combining words, harmony and rhythm. The music was there because in ancient times it was a metaphysical key and an important tool of education, in which a given composition was directly related to specific ones states of the soul, characters and emotions. The text continues this way of thinking in the era of humanism, where not only theorists, but also composers, performers and listeners assign specific figures have specific meanings. The author devotes a lot of space examples of musical use of various rhetorical and musical figures and how they function. He emphasizes, however, that despite the specific the universalization of the musical language is a system of rhetorical-musical figures extremely diverse and subject to individual contextual interpretation.

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