Souffrir en musique

• Autores: Martine Clouzot
• Localización: Medievales: Langue, textes, histoire, ISSN 0751-2708, Nº 27, 1994 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Du bon usage de la souffrance), págs. 25-36
• Idioma: francés
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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.