ETHNOMUS 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Mass In B Minor, Easter Oratorio, Seinen Manga
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Oratorio, magnificat, motet affektenlehre, word painting, and parody. Word painting/text painting-composer represents musically some sort of text or idea. Known as the doctrine of the affections. or the doctrine of affects. A theory of musical aesthetics which advocated one idea, or affect per musical movement. Arose from rhetoric, which is the idea of using language to persuade listeners to feel a specific emotion or point of view. Composers evoked such emotions by breaking old rules of consonance and dissonance and of regular rhythmic flow. Each composition, or movement in a composite work, should embody only one affection. Bach learned the theory from his cousin, composer and theorist johann mattheson. With bach it was usually his own, although he did lift some. Bach also took large works from other composers and inserted some of his own compositions between movements when he was in a hurry. Cantata bwv 29 wir danken dir, gott, wir danken dir: sinfonia.
