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The Power and Value of Music - Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Power and Value of Music - Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Medieval Interventions, 1
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Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power.
Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good
or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What
impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a
whole? What are the factors responsible for the effect of music?
This book summarizes and discusses how authors of classical
antiquity addressed these questions on musical "ethos" and how they
can be approached from a modern-day perspective. 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.
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