“METAMELOPEIA”:

THE SOUND AS SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE

Authors

  • Euclides Souza Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v11i1.50188

Keywords:

metaphysics, music, sound, concept, autonomy

Abstract

Music has accompanying and enchanting us since a long time ago, allowing us to communicate and spread ideas not only with the meanings of the words that are sung, but also giving importance to how they are sung, aside the background sound that accompany them, enriching and “completing” their meanings, giving space even to musical pieces which are exclusively instrumental. Analyzing a musical composition, not using it’s own technical theory, but from a philosophical and linguistical perspective (a study of the use of the words and metalinguistics) and also grounding on the studies of Eduard Hanslick, it is possible to understand the sound like a source of semantical content and not only a representation tool of what one wants to communicate or imitate, granting to it the autonomy and capacity to mean something to the human beings by itself as any other event that has inspired us to create our variety of concepts.

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Published

2020-05-19

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Papers

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