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Der vollkommene Capellmeister
work by Mattheson
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theory on affective qualities of music
- In doctrine of the affections
In Der vollkommene Capellmeister (1739; “The Perfect Chapelmaster”), he notes that joy is elicited by large intervals, sadness by small intervals; fury may be aroused by a roughness of harmony coupled with a rapid melody; obstinacy is evoked by the contrapuntal combination of highly independent (obstinate)…
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