Word painting
A symbol is in music, made possible by a certain composition techniques representation of an extra- musical meaning content.
Species
- Urentsprechung
- Rhetorical Figure
- Allegory
- Icon
- Number symbolism
- Soggetto cavato (Italian soggeto, subject; Italian cavare pull out, take out )
History
According to the Aristotelian categories of thinking, doing and bringing forth was told in music theory since the 16th century, the music in Musica theoretica (music theory ), Musica practica (music practice, performance practice ) and Musica Poetica (composition) a.
The Musica poetica saw in the spoken language and in music analogies, which are based on the musical elements of speech ( melody and rhythm ) and therefore summed up the music as a tonal language on.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the center of the musical language in the figure doctrine and the doctrine of affections by music theorists such as Nicolaus Listenius were ( Rudimenta musicae in Gratiam studiosae iuventutis diligenter comportata, 1533), Henry Faber (Musica poetica, 1548 ), Joachim Burmeister, ( Musica poetica, 1606 ), Johann Andreas Herbst (Musica poetica, 1643 ), Johann Jakob Walther ( 1708), systematized.
In the theory of composition, the teaching moved from the musical symbols on the (often formulaic ) invention ( inventio ) of a subject on the overall structure of dispositional that version ( elaboratio ) and decoration ( decoratio ) of the piece.