Open AccessMusic as Spiritual Metaphor in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Author(s) -
Michael F. Bird
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
kinema
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2562-5764
pISSN - 1192-6252
DOI - 10.15353/kinema.vi.833
Subject(s) - soul , metaphor , harmony (color) , movie theater , order (exchange) , art , active listening , tone (literature) , philosophy , literature , aesthetics , visual arts , psychology , communication , theology , finance , economics
SECRET ARITHMETIC OF THE SOUL: MUSIC AS SPIRITUAL METAPHOR IN THE CINEMA OF INGMAR BERGMAN Prelude: General Reflections on Music and the Sacred: It frequently happens that in listening to a piece of music we at first do not hear the deep, fundamental tone, the sure stride of the melody, on which everything else is built... It is only after we have accustomed our ear that we find law and order, and as with one magical stroke, a single unified world emerges from the confused welter of sounds. And when this happens, we suddenly realize with delight and amazement that the fundamental tone was also resounding before, that all along the melody had been giving order and unity... - Rudolf Bultmann(1) I said to myself, it is as if the eternal harmony were conversingwithin itself, as it may have done in...