Pathopoeia

The Pathopoeia or pathopoiia (Greek affective representation, also cause suffering ) is a musical- rhetorical figure, defined as enforcement of foreign music with tonart chromatic tones, the emotions of sorrow, of suffering and of sorrow to express.

In the rhetoric Pathopoeia is less a specific figure, but rather the term for energizing the emotions, so an umbrella term for the demand, emotionally moving ( movere ), serving strategies.

As a musical- rhetorical figure, the Pathopoeia first appears in Joachim Burmeister, after his remarks, " the text is expressed by semitones so that no one is unaffected by the effect brought forth ." A narrowing of the emotions is not found in Burmeister; the musical definition is Christoph Bernhard yet differentiated, without even here a substantive specification would be made: " It happens [ the Pathopoeia ] if halftones are inserted into the composition that are neither the mode nor to the genus of composition ," limited so on ladder strange sounds. Thuringus however, is limited to a description of the affects, however, remains very general: " [ Pathopoeia ] happens when the (musical ) set by the affects of pain, joy, fear, laughter, sadness, pity and exultation, horror and similarly affects is [ ... ] equipped [ ...] » Thuringus. making it the purely rhetorical and thus more general importance of Pathopoeia still very close.

In modern research Dietrich Bartel limits the damage induced by the Pathopoeia affects on suffering, pain and sorrow. The major musical lexicons attest the presence of the figure, the energizing negative affect, which may be explained by the phonetic shape of a chromatic passage by itself. Hartmut Krones alone refers to the earlier, more general in the figure, by assigning her the term " sardonic laughter ."

Ambiguous is the classification of Pathopoeia; can on the one hand be seen as an umbrella term use for the chromatic figures such as Saltus duriusculus or passage duriusculus, Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht emphasizes just their functional deviation from these figures: During passage and Saltus duriusculus the meaning of the text underlined musical, show him " " and thus the category of Belehrens ( docere ) were attributable to " build "the Pathopoeia emotions independently of an indicative function and thus the demand of the Operating the category of movere.