Souffrir en musique

Authors :: Martine Clouzot
Doyen, Gabriel
Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS)
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Source :: Médiévales, Médiévales, 1994, 27, p. 25-36
Publication Year :: 1994
Publisher :: HAL CCSD, 1994.
Abstract: 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.<br />Clouzot Martine. Souffrir en musique. In: Médiévales, n°27, 1994. Du bon usage de la souffrance, sous la direction de Piroska Zombory-Nagy et Véronique Frandon. pp. 25-36.

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