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How is philosophy related to music?
Philosophy of music is the study of fundamental questions about the nature and value of music and our experience of it. Like any “philosophy of X”, it presupposes knowledge of its target.
Is music a metaphysics?
Music is, in a way, the sound of metaphysics, or metaphysics in sound. Music in the Western world was shaped by a shared conception of reality so profound that it endured for some twenty-five hundred years.
What did philosophers say about music?
Plato said that “music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything”.
Who defined philosophy as the highest music?
Plato – Philosophy is the highest music.
What does Socrates say about music?
And in the Phaedo Socrates tells of a dream that has come to him often and in various shapes but always with the same message: “O Socrates, make music and let that be your work” (60e6); he has always taken this dream to mean that he should pursue philosophy, that being “the greatest music” (61a3; cf.
What did Aristotle say about music?
While Aristotle’s philosophies somewhat diverge from Platonic thought, his theories also affirmed that music contained representations of emotional feelings. Like Plato, Aristotle thought music to be fundamentally imitative and agreed that music had the propensity to affect the human soul.
What did Pythagoras say about music?
Pythagoras observed several ratios of sound wave frequencies and the corresponding intervals between them, including 4:3 (known to musicians as the interval of a perfect fourth, or two pitches that are five semitones apart from each other) and 3:2 (a perfect fifth, seven semitones apart).
How does music connect with emotions?
Music has the ability to evoke powerful emotional responses such as chills and thrills in listeners. Positive emotions dominate musical experiences. Pleasurable music may lead to the release of neurotransmitters associated with reward, such as dopamine. Listening to music is an easy way to alter mood or relieve stress.
What is the study of music called?
The word musicology literally means “the study of music,” encompassing all aspects of music in all cultures and all historical periods.
How does music affect morality?
Recent experimental evidence shows that disgusting and irritating sounds, and instrumental music expressing anger or happiness, can have significant impact in moral judgments (Seidel and Prinz, 2013a,b).
Where does Plato talk about music?
In the 28 dialogues (and one book of letters), Plato speaks of the arts and specifically about music. He writes that music, as a whole, (and discourses, and tales of imagination), have the effect of delighting us “if they are beautiful” (Hipp maj 298a).
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