The Emotional Quotient – A Factor of Musical Knowledge

Abstract

The paper focuses on the contribution of music to knowledge through emotional feelings and affection, a complementary way of tackling reality as related to reasoning. It refers both to the knowledge of the outside world and to self-knowledge, increasing the individual’s capacity to relate to his/her fellows particularly as well as to the environment generally, by emotional and affective emancipation. The paper is supported by examples meant to prove how musical art can turn the emotional images of the phenomena specific to the past and present into feelings of affective evidence.