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Please note that registration is open for the following symposium.
Delegates may view the programme and register at this link:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/about_us/centrestaff/researchfellows/prins/hearingsymposium
Hearing the Voice, Hearing the Soul
International Research Symposium organised by Jacomien Prins
5th June 2015, 9.30am-6.30pm at Warwick University, the Institute of
Advanced Study (IAS), Millburn House, Millburn Hill Road, Coventry
Symposium theme
Just as music has fascinated scholars in the Western world continuously for
thousands of years, so time and again they have felt the need to explain
its power. During the Renaissance a revival of interest for ancient
theories about the power of music began. Many philosophers, humanists and
music theorists writing about music found themselves caught in the
Plato-Aristotle controversy. They had to make a choice between two
radically different theories of the constitution of the human soul: a
Platonic one, originating from the Timaeus, which stated that music has a
great influence on the human soul because they are somehow similar, and an
Aristotelian one, originating from On the Soul, which did not postulate any
special relationship between music and the soul. Privileging one
philosophical model over the other brought along entirely different beliefs
about the nature of music, what it does, or what it should do. The body of
doctrine around these two sources, combined with Christian ideas about
music and the soul and all kinds of medical and music-theoretical ideas was
pervasive till the beginning of the seventeenth century. And yet, by the
beginning of the eighteenth century, to learn about music's power meant
turning not to these ancient sources and their reception, but to works on
the soul such as Descartes Passions of the Soul and Hobbes' Human Nature.
The purpose of this symposium is to track and to interrogate the nature,
life span, and eventual radical transformation and/or demise of ancient,
medieval, and Renaissance conceptions of the belief in music's deep
connections with human life.
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The conference is part-funded by the Royal Music Association (RMA) and the
Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS), and is supported by the University
of Warwick's Humanities Research Centre (HRC), Institute of Advanced Study
(IAS), and Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR).
Jacomien Prins
IAS Global Research Fellow
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR)
University of Warwick, IAS, Millburn House
Coventry CV4 7HS
United Kingdom
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