Antonio Celso RIBEIRO

From Aristotle to Castel: Intertextual Relationships between the color of the sound and the sound of the color – affections and synesthesia

De Aristóteles a Castel: relações intertextuais entre a cor do som e o som da cor – afetos e sinestesia

Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)  

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The aim of the present work is to analyse the intertextual relationships between musical notes and colours and its ramifications under the point of view of emotions, humors, and science. The research will comprise the historical period starting in ancient Greece with Aristotle, ending in Baroque with French mathematician Louis Bertrand-Castel (1688-1757). Thus, it will take in assumption that music and colors are correlate languages, and we will support the analysis in considering scientific concepts and semiotic approachs and the concept of migration of meanings (synesthesias).