The statute of tonal music in Susanne Langer

This article aims to understand in terms of music, for Susanne Langer, interpreted in the light of a Symbolic Forms Philosophy. This expression, in turn, is a project or theoretical program of its master, Ernst Cassirer. A theory of art that Langer proposes in Philosophy in the New Key and in Feeling and Form is thought to be a continuity of Cassirer’s critique of culture, an idea based on the conception that once the need for symbolism has been demonstrated (function without which there is no culture), it is up to philosophy to understand and follow the historical development of the modes of manifestation of the Spirit. The Music, while the most abstract of the arts, is a particular mode of symbolism, whose maturity is its internal way of transmitting in what we now call tonal music. The tonalism is the stage in which music reaches its older age only because it has been able to operate from the laws of execution, thus being the result of a long process of constitution of the musical form.É lugar comum a ideia de que vivemos uma crise moral, que nos assola de maneira radical nos dias de hoje. Neste sentido, um fluxo grande de trabalhos, no campo da Saúde, procura delinear os contornos específicos desta crise, bem como esboçar algumas possibilidades de enfrentamento aos seus desdobramentos, com ênfase no que se consagrou na literatura como “educação moral”. Na esteira destas questões, propomos este artigo cujo objetivo é estabelecer uma perspectiva diferente para a crise. Através de um esforço de natureza filosófica, e tendo o filósofo Martin Heidegger como guia desta caminhada, procuramos discutir a referida crise, abordando sua natureza mais essencial e denunciando a insuficiência da “educação moral” contemporânea face à natureza da crise