The Affektenlehre is an important key to understanding Baroque music. The affection that Baroque music pursued was not a subjective feeling of an individual. It was rather a universal object that can be expressed in a stylized form. The purpose of this paper is essentially and comprehensively to approach the Affektenlehre, which is the essence of Baroque music. First, various aspects of the Baroque era identifying human affection rationally and systematically are explored. Then, the article reveals that the final purpose of Baroque music (theory) was stimulation and expression of affection so that the experience of affection controlled by music can give positive impacts on the virtue of a listener. Last, the article discussed the musical practice, in which Baroque composers who are commonly compared with craftsmen realized the Affektenlehre using tools such as tonality, rhythm, key, chord, and figure in accordance with principles of order, discipline and logic.

• 나주리 | Julie Ra