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Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. Less clear is how we can evaluate that power. What makes music good or bad? Are there objective criteria for such a distinction? What impact can or should music have on individuals and on society as a whole? What are the factors responsible for the effect of music? This book summarizes and discusses how authors of classical antiquity addressed these questions on musical \u00abethos\u00bb and how they can be approached from a modern-day perspective.<\/p>\n

After systematically assembling and assessing the value-carrying characterizations of music in poetic literature, the author reviews all noteworthy Greek and Latin writings which enlighten musical \u00abethos\u00bb from the theoretical-philosophical perspective. He then carries the intuitions of the ancients into our time by proposing a coherent model to explain the relationship between music, ethos, and emotions based on the results of contemporary research in the disciplines of music psychology and philosophy. The concept of harmony, understood as the appropriate measure or as the balance of opposites and so central to the reflections of the ancient authors, plays a key role in shedding light on the value and impact, both positive and negative, of music in human existence.<\/p>\n

This book provides the most comprehensive overview available about the effect and ethos of music in antiquity and discusses many related questions of scholarly interest. It includes numerous references provided in the original language with translation, ample empirical material for further research, and an extensive bibliography.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Its Effect and Ethos in Classical Authors and Contemporary Music Theory (Medieval Interventions) Nobody doubts that music has a special, somewhat mysterious power. 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He spent two semesters (1989\/1990) of his theological studies with the\u00a0Theological Year of Studies\u00a0at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, Israel. From 1993 to 1994, he worked as an assistant nurse\u00a0at the hospice\u00a0Haus H\u00f6rn\u00a0in Aachen, Germany. After joining the Legionaries of Christ in 1994, he studied classical humanities for one year in Salamanca, Spain (1996-1997), and in 1999 he received a Licentiate in Philosophy\u00a0(U.S. equivalent: M.A.) at the\u00a0Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College\u00a0in Rome, Italy. Since 1999, he has taught Latin, Greek, History, Art, and Music courses at the Legion of Christ College of Humanities in Cheshire, CT. A priest since 2003, he has served as Academic Dean from 2009 to 2019. In 2013, Fr. Andreas earned his Ph.D. in Classical Civilization at the Classics Department of the\u00a0University of Florida. In recent years, he has taught Western Civilization, Music Theory and History, and Chant. In addition, he serves as a spiritual director, confessor, and choir director for the seminary and as a chaplain for\u00a0Regnum Christi\u00a0members in Upstate New York. He is a member of the\u00a0International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage (MOISA),\u00a0\u00a0The Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and the\u00a0Society for Christian Scholarship in Music. From 2020 to 2022, Fr. Andreas was a visiting scholar with the\u00a0McGrath Institute for Church Life\u00a0at the University of Notre Dame, IN, with an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome, to initiate an extensive research and publication project on integral formation on which he continues to work at present while resuming to teach part-time at Legion of Christ College. On September 13, 2024, Fr. Andreas successfully completed the six-semester\u00a0Spiritual Direction Certificate Program\u00a0with\u00a0Divine Mercy University, Sterling, VA. 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