Una acústica católica para la Barcelona de finales del siglo XIX: cuerpo, alma y subjetividad

Tasio Rodrigo

doi:10.30827/dynamis.v44i2.31699

Authors

Tasio Rodrigo Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4361-1396

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/dynamis.v44i2.31699

Keywords:

acoustics, 19th century, aesthetics, music, Barcelona, religion

Abstract

The second half of the 19th century begins to shape a new way of understanding and interacting with sound, which drifts from a romantic to a modern zeitgeist. In Europe, the acoustic theories held by Helmholtz and Tyndall were accompanied by a new musical-esthetic thought based on the material determinism of hearing. This work analyzes the way in which this European acoustic science, along with its adjacent significations, was interpreted in the local context of Barcelona, considering the conditions of the Catholic religion. A case study of the 1877 lectures given by Francisco de Paula Rojas at the Ateneu Barcelonès is used to examine the construction of a Catholic acoustic theory in which scientific and religious elements were presented in harmony. This approach allows extraction of the interactions between scientific and religious cosmology and of the relationships between scientific and aesthetic thought.

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