The musical analysis and theory under the rhetorical influx during the Baroque

Authors

  • Júlio Versolato São Paulo State University
  • Dorotea Machado Kerr São Paulo State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.55061

Keywords:

musical analysis, musical theory, musical rhetoric, baroque music

Abstract

The great impact of “the classical rhetorical thinking” on European culture – since the birth of Renaissance Humanism until the Baroque – has determined a change of paradigm from what music has been classified as one of the fine arts rather than a science. This paper presents an investigation on the interpretation of musical theory and analysis under the movement of the rhetorical principles most valid on the Baroque. It also investigates the configuration given to musical theory and analysis considering the most representative idea of the period form its technical and aesthetical innovations, the methodological transformation it provided, its consequences through the times until today.

Author Biographies

  • Júlio Versolato , São Paulo State University

    Júlio Versolato holds a bachelor's degree in guitar from São Paulo State University "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" – UNESP. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in musicology in the Graduate Program at the Institute of Arts at UNESP. He teaches guitar, electric bass, theory and analysis, and sound education; he works at the Centro de Formação Musical Viva Música in SBCampo and in Cultural Workshops in the state and municipalities of the ABCD region.

  • Dorotea Machado Kerr, São Paulo State University

    Dorotéa Kerr is an organist, choral conductor, and assistant professor at the Institute of Arts at UNESP. She is a free lecturer in organ and music history at IA/UNESP, holds a PhD in music from Indiana University, USA, and a master's degree in music/organ from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She was the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Music at the Institute of Arts at UNESP and is the president of the Research Committee at this institution.

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2008-01-01

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No. 17 (2008): General Topics

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Articles in Portuguese/Spanish

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“The Musical Analysis and Theory under the Rhetorical Influx During the Baroque”. 2008. Per Musi, no. 17 (January): 64-68. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2008.55061.