"Pneuma" for flute solo by Victor Somma Sheet Music for Flute Solo at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title "Pneuma" for flute solo

Artist Victor Somma

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Victor Somma

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement Flute Solo

Publisher Victor Somma

Product ID 1093698

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Flute

Product Description

In Stoic philosophy "Pneuma" is the concept of the "breath of life," a mixture of the elements air (in motion) and fire (as warmth). Originating among Greek medical writers who locate human vitality in the breath, pneuma for the Stoics is the active, generative principle that organizes both the individual and the cosmos. In its highest form, the pneuma constitutes the human soul (psychê), which is a fragment of the pneuma that is the soul of God. As a force that structures matter, it exists even in inanimate objects. In the Bible, in the New and Old Testament this concept is personified, as if the action of the Creator who is capable of bringing something nonexistent to life were not just a force, a phenomenon, but had a consciousness of its own.

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