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Souffrir en musique

Martine Clouzot

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Histoire de l'enseignement (J. Verger)HistoryFifteenthLiterature and Literary Theorymedia_common.quotation_subjectArt history050109 social psychologyMusicalAmbivalenceEnluminure0502 economics and businessHistoire littéraire0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMiddle AgesLittérature française (Danièle Régnier-Bohler)Relation (history of concept)Ouvrages et travaux généraux sur l'Europe occidentales ou sujetsmedia_commonéconomiesLiteratureVie intellectuellebusiness.industryGeneral Arts and Humanities05 social sciencesArtculturessociétéslettres et arts[SHS.HIST] Humanities and Social Sciences/History[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/Historybusiness050203 business & managementIconographie

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Suffering to Music - Although, in its relation to suffering, music is generally reputed for possessing therapeutic virtues, several iconographie and written sources dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries attribute a harmful influence to music. This ambivalence was based on the correlation between the intensity of suffering and that of the sonorous quality of musical instruments, which in the Middle Ages were divided into two great families in accordance to the sound volume they produced. Consequently it was according to their high and strident or low and soft sonorities that the instruments were thought to act on suffering, either amplifying it or alleviating it.

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1994-01-01
https://hal.science/hal-03308649