Antonio Vivaldi - La Folia Sonata Da Camera No 12 - Angele Dubeau & La Pieta

AFFECT OF THEORY (from lat. Affectus - emotional excitement, passion) - musical-aesthetic. a concept widely adopted in the 18th century . ; according to this theory, the main (or even the only) content of music is expression, or "image", human. feelings, passions. A. t. Originates from the antique (Aristotle) ​​and cf. aesthetics (“Musica movet affectus” - “Music moves passions,” said St. Augustine). An important role in the formation of A. t. Was played by the philosophy of R. Descartes - his treatise "Soul Passions" ("Les passions de l'вme", 1649). DOS A. 's installations of t. are stated by I. Mattezon. “You can perfectly depict the nobility of the soul, love, jealousy with simple tools. You can convey all the movements of the soul with simple chords or their subsequent "he wrote in The Newest Study of the Zingspiers (Die neueste Untersuchung der Singspiele, 1744). This general position was concretized by means of a detailed definition (often normative) of which it would express. by means of melody, rhythm, harmony, this or that feeling can be transmitted.