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Affektenlehre
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Affektenlehre

18th-century aesthetic theory, associated particularly with J J Quantz and C P E Bach, according to which music should be directly expressive of particular emotions. See Empfindsamer Stil.



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Burmeister stands at the head of a long tradition, adumbrated in the sixteenth century but fully developed in the seventeenth, of categorizing musical procedures in terms of rhetoric, the so-called Figurenlehre or Doctrine of the Affections.
Musical Poetics by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly
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