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doctrine of the affections

German Affektenlehre

Aesthetic theory of music in the Baroque period. Under the influence of Classical rhetoric, late Baroque theorists and composers held that music is capable of arousing a variety of specific emotions in the listener, and that, by employing the proper musical procedure or device, the composer could produce a particular involuntary emotional response in his audience. By the end of the 17th century, individual movements were customarily organized around a single emotion, resulting in the lack of strong contrasts and the repetitive rhythms characteristic of Baroque music. Several attempts at systematic lists of the emotional effects of different scales and figures were made, but to no general agreement.

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No references found			Burmeister stands at the head of a long tradition, adumbrated in the sixteenth century but fully developed in the seventeenth, of categorizing musical procedures in terms of rhetoric, the so-called Figurenlehre or Doctrine of the Affections. Musical Poetics by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly			Docodonta docosane docosanoic acid docosapentanoic acid docs DOCSIS Docstoc Doctor doctor bar doctor blade doctor knife Doctor of Sciences doctor roll doctor solution doctor test doctor treatment doctorate Doctorow, E L Doctorow, E. L. Doctors of the Church Doctors Without Borders Doctors' Day Doctors' Plot doctrine Doctrine of Signatures doctrine of the affections DOCTYPE DocuComp Document document alignment document centric document comparison utility document deposit Document Examiner document exchange software document flow document handling document image processing document imaging document leading edge document management document management system document mark document misregistration document number Document Object Model document plane document platen document processing document publishing software document reader			Doctrine of Emanation Doctrine of Equality of States Doctrine of God Lecture Outline Doctrine of last clear chance Doctrine of Nullification Doctrine of Nullification Doctrine of Nullification Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty Doctrine of precedence Doctrine of precedence Doctrine of precedent Doctrine of precedent Doctrine of preexistence Doctrine of privity Doctrine of Recollection Doctrine of Recollection Doctrine of Recollection Doctrine of res judicata Doctrine of res judicata Doctrine of res judicata Doctrine of res judicata Doctrine of res judicata Doctrine of signatures Doctrine of signatures Doctrine of sovereign immunity Doctrine of sovereign immunity Doctrine of sovereign immunity Doctrine of tenure Doctrine of tenure doctrine of the affections Doctrine of the Atonement Doctrine of the Atonement Doctrine of the Atonement Doctrine of the Mean Doctrine of the sphere Doctrine of the Trinity Doctrine of the Trinity Doctrine Organization Training Doctrine Query Language doctrine sponsor Doctrine Training Team Doctrine, Operational, Training, Leader and Material Doctrine, Organization, Tactics, Materiel, and Logistics Doctrine, Organization, Training, Equipment, and Structure Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership, & Personnel Doctrine, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures Doctrine, Training, Leader Development, Organizations, and Materiel Doctrine, Training, Leader, Soldiers Doctrine, Training, Organization, and Materiel Doctrines Doctrines Doctrines Doctrines Doctrines from the Prophets doctrines of lawmaking doctrinism doctus Doctype DOCU Docu-comedy

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