On Music, Order, and Memory: Investigating Augustine’s Descriptive Method in the Confessions

AbstractAugustine’s account in the Confessions Book IX of his ecstasy at Ostia remains unsurpassed in its poetic force, yet unusual, as a description of religious experience, in two particular respects. First of all, what he describes is not a “vision” of God, but an experience of listening. Second, it is not a solitary but a shared experience (e.g., with his mother, Monica). This essay considers the significance of these two elements by analyzing the relation between his description in Book IX and the understanding of rhythm that he develops in De musica. Drawing also on Book X (on memory) and Book XI (on time-consciousness) in the Confessions, I investigate a particular type of flowing memory – what I call, “perfect” memory – that characterizes the temporally ordered movements of musical rhythm, showing that it is in this type of memory that Augustine finds God.

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PENDIDIKAN AGAMA PADA ANAK MUCIKARI DI LOKALISASI GAMBILANGU MANGKANG SEMARANG

SOSIO DIALEKTIKA ◽

10.31942/sd.v2i2.2092 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Saiful Aziz

Keyword(s):

Religious Education ◽

Religious Experience ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

The State ◽

Islamic Education ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Qur’Anic Education ◽

Religious Elements ◽

Descriptive Method

Education is recognized as a force that can help the Society achieve the splendor andprogress of civilization. Religious education directly touches the very essence of theessence of the students, especially in terms of values, attitudes, and practice of religion.Education will provide positive values, attitudes, and demands of behavior and religiousexamples. The more religious experience, and the more religious elements, the attitudesand actions, behavior and way of dealing with life will be in accordance with theteachings of religion.This study aims to find and describe the profile of pimp children, the forms of religiouseducation obtained by pimp children and the experience of pimping children's education.Based on the above description, the authors emphasize the following issues: (1) Where dopimp kids get religious education? (2)What aspects of religion do pediatric children gainin religious education in pimp children in the localization of gambilangu MangkangSemarang?This study uses a qualitative approach, a study that seeks to reveal the state of a naturalnature as a whole.Qualitative research is used to understand the community, problemsand symptoms by collecting as much as possible facts that can be observed. The methodused is descriptive method that aims to describe the problem systematically.Islamic education in pimpchildren in lokalisasi gambilangu mangkang semarang has runalthough not ideal yet. Pimped children receive Islamic Education in schools (Primaryand Kindergarten), Qur'anic Education Park and Village Neighbor's mosque and someare in Musolla (the only localized musolla). From these educational institutions pimpchildren get knowledge about aqidah / faith, worship and morals.Keywords: Education,Pimps,Child,Localization.

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Lirik Musikal pada Lagu Anak Berbahasa Indonesia

RESITAL JURNAL SENI PERTUNJUKAN ◽

10.24821/resital.v15i2.850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 163-168

Author(s):

Fortunata Tyasrinestu

Keyword(s):

Child Development ◽

Actual Condition ◽

Positive Education ◽

Common People ◽

Musical Rhythm ◽

Development Stages ◽

Musical Characteristics ◽

Holistic Method ◽

Repeated Words ◽

Descriptive Method

Penelitian ini mengkaji bahasa lagu anak berbahasa Indonesia. Lagu anak berbahasa Indonesia adalah lagu yang diperuntukkan dan dinyanyikan oleh anak-anak sesuai dengan perkembangan anak. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan karakteristik lagu anak (LA) secara musikal dengan memperhatikan kata-kata atau lirik yang ada dalam lagu anak berbahasa Indonesia. Karakteristik lirik dan karakteristik musikal yang saling menyatu merupakan harmoni yang indah dalam lagu anak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif. Analisis yang diterapkan adalah metode holistik yang dipergunakan untuk melihat LA dari beberapa perspektif melalui wawancara dan angket yang diperoleh dari praktisi musik dan praktisi pendidikan, guru, orangtua, siswa dan awam. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa lagu anak berbahasa Indonesia mempunyai beberapa karakteristik secara lirik dan musikal yaitu 1) pola ritme yang diulang secara musikal, 2) melodi yang diulang secara musikal, 3) motif yang diulang secara musikal, dan 4) kata-kata yang diulang secara musikal. Fungsi lagu anak berbahasa Indonesia selain untuk belajar bahasa juga mengandung nilai pendidikan dan karakter positif untuk anak dengan kata-kata bermakna positif pada lirik-liriknya. The Characteristics of Musical Lyrics on Indonesian Children Songs.The study tries to examine the discourse of Indonesian children songs. Indonesian children songs are songs that are composed for and sung by children in accordance with the child development stages. The purpose of this study is to describe the discourse of Indonesian children songs which describe their musical characteristics by giving more attention on words or lyrics of the songs. The characteristics of lyrics and musical characteristics that belong to each other are mainly a beautiful harmony in children songs. This study uses a descriptive method. The holistic method is employed to analyze children songs from some perspectives by doing the interview and distributing questionnaires to musicians, educators, teachers, parents, students, and common people in terms of composition background, the actual condition, and the resulted effect. The result shows that the Indonesian children songs have their own lyrics and musical characteristics as the followings: 1) the pattern of repeated musical rhythm, 2) the musically-repeated melody , 3) the repeated musical motives, and 4) the musically-repeated words. The function of Indonesian children songs is to learn a language of which the songs may also contain positive education values and characters for children by showing the meaningful words in the lyrics.

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Husserl’s Model of Time-Consciousness, and the Phenomenology of Rhythm

The Philosophy of Rhythm ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199347773.003.0019 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 291-306

Author(s):

Salomé Jacob

Keyword(s):

Short Term Memory ◽

Temporal Structure ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Musical Rhythm ◽

Bodily Awareness ◽

Time Consciousness ◽

Primal Impression ◽

Temporal Consciousness ◽

To Come

Chapter 18 examines the implications of Husserl’s model of temporal consciousness on the experience of musical rhythm. Any current moment of an experience, according to Husserl, includes three phases: retention (“holding-on” of the just-past), primal-impression (now-point), and protention (anticipation of what-is-just-about-to-come). Husserl’s analysis of time-consciousness is, the author argues, particularly useful in a study of rhythm, although this analysis does not do justice to the full complexity of the phenomenology of rhythm. First, Husserl’s framework, when applied to rhythm, suggests that listeners retain the just-past sounds and anticipate the sounds-to-come in the light of what has been heard. Short-term memory and short-term anticipation should thus be studied in close interaction. Second, Husserl’s model helps to frame a rich embodied phenomenology of rhythm. In bodily interaction with rhythm, one’s experience encompasses the perception of musical rhythm but also a bodily awareness of one’s own movements, where both aspects share the same temporal structure.

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‘If there is a God, any Experience which seems to be of God, will be Genuine’

Religious Studies ◽

10.1017/s0034412500020369 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 207-217

Author(s):

Michael P. Levine

Keyword(s):

Religious Experience ◽

Religious Experiences ◽

Existence Of God ◽

The Face ◽

Richard Swinburne ◽

Vision Of God

In The Existence of God Richard Swinburne argues that ‘if there is a God, any experience which seems to be of God, will be genuine – will be of God.’ On the face of it this claim of the essential veridicality of any religious experience, given the existence of God, is incredible. Consider what is being claimed by looking at a particularly dramatic example – but one that is well within the purview of Swinburne's claim. The ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ who murdered at least thirteen women, claimed to hear voices telling him to kill. He took these voices to be divine. While it is easy enough to suspect the killer's sanity, it is not so easy to doubt his sincerity. Yet since Swinburne claims that God probably exists, he is committed to the view that the Ripper had a series of genuine religious experiences – so much for the arduous preparations sometime taken as necessary for a ‘vision’ of God.

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