A FEW THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT MUSICAL ARCHETYPES

Abstract

This short essay brings a few lines of essential data and facts taken from different researches, both from musical domain and other fields. But also walking on the steps of the “primordial sounds†and trying to describe some of the archetypal roots found in the musical phenomenon today.
Different researchers from different scientific domains, such as psychology, physics, musical theory and ethno-musicology, have succeeded to describe and demonstrate the existence, the persistence over the time and the large spreading of the archetypes in general and of the musical ones in particular.
Archetypes in every forms, including the musical ones, represent the essence, the primordial matrices that, during history, took different forms of big variety, personalized in the context of different civilizations spreaded all over the world.
The musical art constitutes thus a cultural and musical value, a language, an universal way of communication and expression, that has been continuously used from prehistoric times by the humanity.
The study of these musical roots, of these musical archetypes, becomes really fascinating, taking us to special trans-cultural revelations, clearing not only the universality of music – classical or ethnical – but the universality of the Hole Human Knowledge.