Взирането и вслушването в музиката

Alternate Title: Seeing Music and Listening to It

Seeing and listening are taken as two fundamental attitudes toward music; the former is presupposed by the relation between the object (of study) and the subject (of knowledge), while the latter is constituted by the opportunity to understand founded on the musical act as such, i.e. on the actuality...

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Author:Kristina Yapova
Published: S.n., s.l., 2017
Volume:26
Pages:103-118
Language:Bulgarian
Periodical:Философски алтернативи
Number:5
ISSN:0861-7899
Format:Article
Topic:- Works > Dialogues / Early works > De musica
- Doctrine > Man > [Doctrine de la connaissance] > [Connaissance sensible (le rêve)] > [Connaissance sensible-sensation-sens.]
- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > Influence on the various authors and writings > Boethius (ca. 480- ca. 525)
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:Seeing and listening are taken as two fundamental attitudes toward music; the former is presupposed by the relation between the object (of study) and the subject (of knowledge), while the latter is constituted by the opportunity to understand founded on the musical act as such, i.e. on the actuality of music. Insofar as motion is an inherent property of music, it is reasonable to distinguish two directions connected to these attitudes. While seeing, referring to what can be seen, moves in a direction against music, listening as a way of understanding goes along with music. Some meaningful historical precedents of musical knowledge, dominated by either of these attitudes, are examined (mainly through works by St. Augustine and Boethius) in order to point out the primacy of listening over seeing for a contemporary philosophy of music