The language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio

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dc.book.titleCognate Music Theories: The Past and the Other in Musicology (Essays in Honor of John Walter Hill)
dc.contributor.authorTorrente Sánchez-Guisande, Álvaro José
dc.contributor.authorDomínguez Rodríguez, José María
dc.contributor.editorPrats-Arolas, Ignacio
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-25T08:24:18Z
dc.date.available2024-06-25T08:24:18Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn Chapter 9, Álvaro Torrente and José María Domínguez report their extensive, very recent original research on the language of emotions in the corpus of the librettos by Pietro Metastasio. This chapter takes as a point of departure the observation that, despite Descartes’s concerns for clarity, his efforts in Les Passions de l’âme were shaped by the cultural contingencies of words and language. This becomes evident from two perspectives for the authors: first, the terminology for human passions is particularly subjective; second, the translation of the various passions’ names to other European languages adds further complexity, as evidenced by both contemporary and modern translations. Thus, this chapter delves into the terms used to convey Cartesian ideas of passions, considering several translations of Descartes’s treatise, dating from 1650 through the present, thereby devising a cognate theory for analytical purposes in the realm of musical dramaturgy. In this manner and beginning with selected librettos by Metastasio and his use of such terminology, it aims at explaining in twenty-first-century vocabulary crucial concepts embedded in eighteenth-century operatic dramaturgy.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Musicología
dc.description.facultyFac. de Geografía e Historia
dc.description.facultyInstituto del Teatro de Madrid (ITEM)
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Council
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dc.identifier.citationTorrente, Álvaro, y José María Domínguez. «The Language of Emotions from Descartes to Metastasio*». Cognate Music Theories, de Ignacio Prats-Arolas, 1.a ed., Routledge, 2024, pp. 139-71. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311690-12.
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003311690-12
dc.identifier.isbn9781003311690
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003311690-12/language-emotions-descartes-metastasio-%C3%A1lvaro-torrente-jos%C3%A9-mar%C3%ADa-dom%C3%ADnguez
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/105222
dc.language.isoeng
dc.page.final172
dc.page.initial139
dc.page.total33
dc.publication.placeNew York
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/788986/EU
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject.cdu316.7
dc.subject.keywordMusicology
dc.subject.keywordMusic and passions
dc.subject.keywordDescartes
dc.subject.keywordMetastasio
dc.subject.keywordEighteenth-century Italian Opera
dc.subject.keywordSeria opera
dc.subject.ucmOpera
dc.subject.unesco6203.06 Música, Musicología
dc.titleThe language of emotions from Descartes to Metastasio
dc.title.alternativeEl idioma de las emociones desde Descartes hasta Metastasio
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