L’anagogie de l’âme vers Dieu dans le De musica d’Augustin
Title | L’anagogie de l’âme vers Dieu dans le De musica d’Augustin |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 2001 |
Authors | Kraléva, E |
Editor | Pinault, G-J |
Ancient Authors | Aurelius Augustinus (PHI 2468) |
Book Title | Musique et poésie dans l’Antiquité. Actes du colloque de Clermont-Ferrand, Université Blaise Pascal, 23 mai 1997 |
Series Title | Collection ERGA 2 |
Pagination | 97-107 |
Publisher | Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal |
City | Clermont-Ferrand 2001 |
ISBN | 9782845161757 |
Keywords | Agostino di Ippona, Cristianesimo, estetica, rapporto parola/musica, teoria |
Abstract | Augustine's treatise De musica reflects a double tradition. The first, common to classical antiquity, at least since Plato, consists in the difference between musical practice and theory, that is, between cantus and musica. Only the latter is worthy of being studied by a well-educated free person. This is the reason why the first five books of the De musica are, in fact, a treatise on meter, or more precisely, prosody, and not on music in the modern sense of the term. The second tradition is properly Christian: the more a study brings man into contact with God, the more value it has. This principle finds its justification in book VI, which is the climax of the preceding books. |
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