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19 Cards in this Set
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Mersenne asks an important question about pleasure, what is it?
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Is pleasure universal? Can everybody feel the same pleasure?
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What questions does Mersenne ask (the same ideas as Poussin)?
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What we hear/see gives us pleasure. He says that sound is just something we hear, the ear doesn't know what it is, it just passes to the brain where it is decoded.
We give ourselves pleasure. |
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What else does Mersenne ask about music - does everybody like the same thing?
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he asks if what he likes, everybody likes? Do people in other countries have the same notions - of music?
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What does Descartes say about tragedies?
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He understands why we go and see comedies, but why tragedies?
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What interests Mersenne about sadness in music?
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He tries to understand what touches us - our emotions - "interiorité" physically. He wonders what happens when we hear happy music. Does happy music make us happy?
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What does Mersenne ask about emotions and music?
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He asks if the joy of music effects us physically or rather psychologically or intellectually? He wonders if sound makes us react or if we (intellectually) interpret music to our feelings.
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How do we see music at this point in time? Is it something that can express something?
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Yes, we now look at music as something expressive, and less as an explanation.
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What is music meant to do at this period?
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It was meant to arouse and represent the affections, not be merely beautiful and formally delightful.
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What is Mersenne's ideas on language?
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Mersenne starts to look at the voice and language. He asks if there is a conncetion between sound and meaning. He believed (at first) that it would be possible to build a perfect language 'universal language'.
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What book does Mersenne write about the voice?
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"Traité de la voix"
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What are some of the sounds that Mersenne catalogs? And what number is the voice?
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Voice or cry (without syllable) is number 4 in the list. Others include breath, blowing etc.
The 5th noise in the list is the voice with syllables, which means singing. |
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What does he ask about animals (humans) and noise?
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Firstly, only sounds used by humans and animals to express passions are 'natural'. Could we transcribe their voices and understand them? They also make sounds to communicate, to show fright, to show hunger, like we do.
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What is the difference between man and animals?
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Mankind has the freedom to express his feelings (in noise).
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What else can mankind do that animals can't?
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We can make language.
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What's important about this fourth sound?
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It proves we have emotions.
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What are Signs for Mersenne?
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A characteristic of thoughts (feelings).
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What is Kabbalism?
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The understanding of mystical language or signs ... although I'm not sure what that has to do with Mersenne?
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What is Mersenne's Universal Language?
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Mersenne believed that musicians could create a new language IF we lost our language. It's based on immediate understanding of emotions via sound, language.
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Does Mersenne consider Psalm singing as song?
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No! It's reciting. There, for him, has to be changes in frequencies.
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