Cheshire Lecture on Music and Emotions

How does music evoke emotions? And how did the authors of antiquity, above all Plato and Aristotle, experience and think about this relationship?

On Februrary 11, Fr Andreas Kramarz, LC, our dean of studies, introduced the audience into the intricacies of the mechanisms which govern the arousal of emotions through music and elaborated on the question what "musical emotions" are and whether they actually exist.

This lecture was based on a paper presented last January at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Classical Studies (SCS) in San Francisco for the panel organized by MOISA (International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music & Its Cultural Heritage).