Music as a Universal Bond and Bridge Between the Physical and the Divine: Transcultural and Medieval Perspectives
Albrecht Classen
This article accepts the challenge to reflect on cultural history of music as a transcultural and universally human phenomenon, particularly in medieval context. To what extent has played same or at least similar function endless contexts all over world from past present? We know for sure that always been present age groups, ethnic among genders, throughout time. There have local, types (folklore), accepted manifestations (esp. classical music). The emphasis here rests, after an extensive study global cultural-historical terms, comments about philosophy, mysticism, literature because we discover fundamental notions being medium connect individual with cosmic harmony, hence divine. In literary texts, above all, was identified critical expression identity, love, religion. Keywords: Transcultural music; classic terms; Beatles; Martianus Capella; Boethius; Gottfried von Strassburg; Jörg Wickram; Hermann Hesse
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities