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Lyubimova, T. B.
Music of the Spheres, Love and Ahaseurus
// Culture and Art.
2014. № 2.
P. 183-196.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=65008
Lyubimova, T. B. Music of the Spheres, Love and Ahaseurus
Abstract:
Modern music is very different from the traditional music that was the part of the ritual
and had a metaphysical meaning. Today music is oriented at virtuosity and sentimentality. In traditional
music human is seen as a metaphysical creature. The unity of the microcosmos and macrocosmos
is an important idea of traditional cultures. Therefore the essence of music can be understood on
the basis of that metaphysical idea. Symbols related to the themes of perfection, immortality, life and
death are typical for traditional culture and help to understand music as metaphysics. Comparison
of multi-level cultural layers is carried out by the means of the method of interpretation of symbolic
figures. Plato’s idea of the cosmic world structure is taken as an initial symbol that helps to reveal the
metaphysical essence of music. Music is not only art from the esthetic point of view. Music also has
metaphysical purposes. For example, from the anthropological point of view music helps to restore
numerous connections with the all-encompassing Universe. Throughout history art has been always
changing its status and function. However, in modern culture music practically loses its metaphysical
meaning which it used to have in traditional culture.
Keywords:
Music, culture, time, Zoroastrianism, information, Universe, tradition, metaphysics, immortality, beautiful.
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