Hudba a přirozenost
| Title in English | Music and Nature |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Description | The basis of the paper is be the older (ancient and medieval) tradition of European education in which music (musica) was part of the quadrivium, i.e. one of the seven liberal arts. The starting point of the paper is the thought of Boethius - in addition to the famous Consolatio Philosophiae (Consolation of Philosophy), it will be in particular another influential and widely reciprocated writing, De institutione musica (Foundations of Music), which emphasizes the interconnection of music and (human) nature in the very first chapter of the first book. The paper aims to: (1) to expound, with the help of texts from the previous tradition on which Boethius builds, the notion of music and nature and their interrelation, (2) to show the contemporary fruitfulness of this interrelation, and (3) to draw more clearly the parallels between the music of the world, music of a man, and music of instruments (i. e. between musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis), since ancient and medieval writers, while working with analogies between these domains, do not usually address them to the extent we would consider necessary today. |
| Related projects: |