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PERTUSA, Pablo Quiñonero  y  DELGADO, Ruth Gutiérrez. The Role of Music in Audiovisual Storytelling from the Perspective of Aristotle’s Poetics. Revista de Comunicación [online]. 2024, vol.23, n.2, pp.299-318.  Epub 12-Dic-2024. ISSN 1684-0933.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26441/rc23.2-2024-3574.

Music is an element that appears systematically as part of the rhetorical strategy of audiovisual narratives and is, to that extent, a constitutive part of them. Since audiovisual narratives, especially fictional ones, can be considered as poetic works in the Aristotelian sense, it is worth asking about the role that music plays in this poetic condition. In this research article, a theoretical proposal along these lines is put forward that will serve both to explain the role of music in the work of fiction and to analyze it. For the development of this proposal, the basis of the theory is based on the Aristotelian corpus (in particular, Poetics, Politics and Rhetoric), from which music can be understood as an expressive resource linked to the representation and creation of emotion. For this point, it is proposed to develop a theory of emotions, elaborated fundamentally from the studies of M. Nussbaum and M. Scheler, whose contributions connect the emotional processes with the recognition of ethical values. These ethical values, linked to emotions and their corresponding musical expressions, are to serve the purpose of discerning the function that music fulfills in the “letting oneself be followed” of history as a whole, by pointing out the prevailing emotional state or adjusted to the action.

Palabras clave : music; emotion; ethics; Aristotle; poetics; audiovisual narrative; storytelling.

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