Historic development of the Mousike to Augustine's "De musica"

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: Ogawa Ayako 学習院大学, 文学部, 講師 (10726582)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 哲学 / 古代ギリシア哲学 / 音楽 / 美学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, I reserched how a word of mousike converges to a meaning of the music. The etymology of music is musica of the Latin. Furthermore, the etymology of musica is mousike of Classical Greek.
At first, I made clear that a word of the Classical Greek "mousike" have a etymological meaning of "a thing delivering words of God" in Plato through reading and understanding the Plato's texts. Especially, in "Phaedo", this etymological character appear vividly.
But, in Augustine, I caught that a meaning of musica was considerably limited and clarified that "the thing delivering words of God" was nothing but music in latter Augustine.

Free Research Field

哲学