Von der "himmlischen Harmonie" zum "musicalischen Krieg"

Overview & Synopsis

The Stimmung of a landscape, "in Stimmung sein" or "Stimmung machen". In these aesthetic and psychological meanings, the word Stimmung was not yet familiar in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The debates about the right tuning system in music raged all the more fiercely. The issue was not merely the determination of pitches, but the question of what music was and how it related to man and nature. Silvan Moosmüller illuminates different positions and argumentation strategies and puts the music-theoretical controversies in relation to contemporary literature and science. In the field of tension between harmony of the spheres and physiological aesthetics, a semantic network of mood comes into view, in which musical, cosmological, mathematical-physical and aesthetic aspects of meaning overlap.