نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
استادیار، گروه نوازندگی سازجهانی، دانشکده موسیقی، دانشگاه هنر ایران.
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
Katharsis is a term used by Aristotle to describe the emotional purgation faced with tragedy and mousikē, and he established a nexus between tragic and musical katharsis in book eight of Politics. This correlation has persistently been considered as an approach for exploring the essence of katharsis, but it has often led to ignoring the differences in the mechanism of engendering tragic katharsis compared to the mechanism of engendering musical katharsis. Irrespective of katharsis' intrinsic nature, the compositor of an artistic oeuvre invariably seeks a mechanism to engender it. Nonetheless, a few studies have dealt with the mechanism of engendering katharsis hitherto and compared the phases of its mechanism in tragedy and mousikē, and also, the results of these researches have often not been clear enough, precise, and error-free. Therefore, this qualitative inquiry, employing a descriptive-analytical and based on topics and by the necessity of the subject, hermeneutic methodology, aspires to elucidate the mechanism of katharsis, delineating its differences and similarities within the contexts of tragedy and mousikē. In this regard, by referring to the text of Aristotle's treatises, the elements of mousikē in book eight of Politics were initially determined and it became clear that its implications cannot be simply reduced to music in its contemporary meaning or to instrumental music. Then, the mechanism for engendering tragic and musical katharsis was configured analogously across three phases: the elicitation of sympathy, psychological change, and the passivity of the soul. A comparative analysis of phases of mechanism of engendering katharsis in tragedy and mousikē revealed that their processes of impact are sometimes markedly distinct, while at other times, their shared characteristics eliminate the demarcation between tragic and musical katharsis. Although ostensibly, the impact process of phases of mechanism of engendering katharsis in tragedy appears to be mediated and cognitive, and in mousikē, immediate and non-cognitive, a deeper consideration of the inherent musical elements embedded in tragedy and their mimetic behavior in mousikē allows for the conceptualization of phases of mechanism of engendering katharsis in both tragedy and mousikē within an ethereal continuum, wherein the impact process can oscillate between cognitive and non-cognitive realms.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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