Music and emotion
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"I know not how to draw any distinction between tears and music." ("Ich weiß keinen Unterschied zwischen Tränen und Musik zu machen") --Ecce Homo (1908) by Friedrich Nietzsche "In an early work, Adorno once disclosed his emotional-epistemological secret almost without camouflage. In a few heartrending lines he wrote about crying in response to Schubert's music, about how tears and knowing (Erkenntnis) are connected. This music makes us cry because we are not like it, not something complete, which turns toward the lost sweetness of life like a distant quotation." --Critique of Cynical Reason (1983) by Peter Sloterdijk "Vor Schuberts Musik stürzt die Träne aus dem Auge,ohne erst die Seele zu befragen."--Adorno, 1928 |
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"The study of 'music and emotion' seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music. It is a branch of music psychology with numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical composition or performance may elicit certain reactions. The field draws upon, and has significant implications for, such areas as philosophy, musicology, music therapy, music theory and aesthetics, as well as the acts of musical composition and performance.
Two of the most influential philosophers in the aesthetics of music are Stephen Davies and Jerrold Levinson.
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