Muzyczne wyznaczniki przeżycia religijnego podczas Mszy świętej

Abstract

A religious experience in liturgy is influenced by various elements of music as well as personal abilities of the percipient. They include melodics, harmony, rhythmics, tonality and the music memory on the basis of which a person keeps in mind and recognizes a sound colour of a frequently listened musical instrument (organ). Then it also includes musical experience that helps them anticipate the course of the music heard, etc. Anticipation and different constellations of expected and unexpected sound impulses in a music flow may lead to the emotional experiencing music which includes elements of aesthetic evaluation. Of the same importance is a momentary operative memory (keeping the heard tones in one’s mind and comparing them with the tones a person is just listening to) without which is the musical thinking at the level of perception impossible. It is certain that music in a complex connection with other factors participates on the total experience from the worship. It is not proved whether music itself or any element of it causes the religious experience. Its final form is reached in connection of music with personal religiousness, sacred texts and their effect on the recipient’s mind.