Please join the Affect and Emotions Workshop
on Monday, May 18 when
Lawrence Zbikowski
Professor of Music and the Humanities in the College
Department of Music
University of Chicago
presents the paper:
“Music and the Language of Emotions”
Monday, May 18 | 4:30-6pm
Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/94609813701
Respondent: Audrey Slote, Music
Description: This paper takes as its point of departure the idea that music is “the language of the emotions.” I explore this idea through a close consideration of some of the issues raised by the second movement of Samuel Barber’s string quartet of 1936. This consideration will lead to an exploration of the language used to characterize emotions or, more properly, the way this language is grounded in embodied processes that shape human thought.
The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Affect and the Emotions Workshop mailing list and is available in the post below with a password.
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Image: Edgar Degas, Degas’s Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar. c. 1869-72.
