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I detta examensarbete presenteras de vanligaste musikaliskt-retoriska figurerna samt retorikens historia i musikaliska sammanhang. Skribenten undersöker också vilka retoriska figurer som går att hitta i J.S. Bachs Toccata i C-dur BWV 564 och om vetskapen om retorik kunde hjälpa henne med interpretationen av detta stycke.

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German musicology has customarily situated a paradigm shift in musical aesthetics some time during the first half of the sixteenth century. This dissertation examines the suggestion that German Reformation theology inspired a modern musical aesthetic. In Part One, the existing narrative of relationship between theological and musical thought is tested and rejected. Chapter 1 analyses twentieth-century music historians' positive expectation of commensurability between Luther's theological ideas and the sixteenth-century concepts of the musical work and musical rhetoric, concluding that their positive expectation was dependent on a Germanocentric modernity narrative. Chapter 2 assesses Listenius' Musica (1537), the textbook in which the concepts of the musical work and musica poetica were expounded for the first time. I argue that, since Listenius' textbook was intended as a pedagogical tool, it is inappropriate to read his exposition of musica poetica and opus as if logical sentences on musical aesthetics. Part Two investigates the treatment of musica in the theology of early German Reformation disputants. Chapter 3 finds that Luther's early musical thought was borrowed from the late mediæval mystics, and resisted the influence of the Renaissance Platonists. Chapter 4 shows that, far from embracing humanist ideas of musical rhetoric, Luther's Reformed musical aesthetic became increasingly anti-rational and sceptical of music's relation to verbal meaning. Chapter 5 examines the discussions of music by the German Romanist polemicists. It finds that their music-aesthetic assertions were opportunistic attempts to situate the Lutherans outside the bounds of orthodoxy. The dissertation concludes that the discussions of music in early German Reformation texts ran counter to the general sixteenth-century trajectory towards a humanistic or modern aesthetic of music. It further argues that the aesthetic proposals of sixteenth-century German theologians should be taken seriously in the formation of our present-day picture of sixteenth-century musical thought.

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L'étude de ce que l'on nomme « rhétorique musicale » nous semble pouvoir offrir un éclairage spécifique sur la question de la musique et des émotions. En effet, les deux champs de réflexion en philosophie de la musique dont il est question font l'objet d'un intérêt qui se manifeste au cours de ces dernières années. Aussi, nous considérons que la rhétorique musicale et le phénomène particulier de la poétique musicale germanique sont de nature à structurer une telle étude, tant par les choix qu'ils présupposent (comme le fait que les émotions y sont un moyen destiné à produire un effet) que par ceux qu'ils délaissent. Notre recherche suivra les trois principales étapes suivantes : (a) une étude des aspects de la question antérieurs à la musica poetica (dans la Grèce antique, dans la liturgie luthérienne, dans la théorie musicale italienne) ; (b) un examen détaillé du thème des passions dans les traités de l’Allemagne baroque ; (c) un parcours concernant l’évolution de la question jusqu’aux débats actuels. / Studying “musical rhetoric” seems likely to bring some specific light about the topic of music and emotions. Both fields of research in philosophy of music involved arouse an interest, especially last years. Therefore, we regard musical rhetoric and the distinctive phenomenon of German musical poetics as able to structure such a studying, through choices they suppose (for example, the fact that emotions are means for have an effect) and choices they leave. Our investigation includes the three main following parts: (a) some study about facets of the subject prior to musica poetica (in Ancient Greece, in Lutheran liturgy, in Italian theory of music); (b) some detailed examination about the topic of passions in German baroque treatises; (c) a review regarding evolution of the subject up to current discusses..