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Doctrine of the affections
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BBD a10008792
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MT Music terms
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May subdivide by: Fear; Grief; Joy; Melancholy; Pathos; Struggle
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The belief, widely held in the 17th and early 18th centuries, that the principal aim of music is to arouse the passions or affections (e.g. love, hate, joy, anger, fear, etc.), conceived as rationalized, discrete, and relatively static states (New Harvard Dictionary of Music)
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Affections, Doctrine of
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MUSIC TERMS
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Emotions
 
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