title: Musical expressions of life: a look at the 18th and 19th century from a human becoming perspective.
abstract: What follows is an exploration of 18th and 19th century music of the Western world through a nursing science lens, specifically that of the human becoming theory. This article was written while I was enrolled in a music history course, which afforded me the opportunity to explore music as musical expressions of life. Rooted in the human becoming philosophical perspective, which focuses on unitary human experience and the quality of human life, I discuss musical expressions of life with examples from various composers throughout the 18th and 19th century. This article concludes with a reflection on musical expressions and their contribution to the enhancement of the quality of human life, a focus of nursing from a human becoming perspective.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Research, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jonas-Simpson
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music / Q000266:history*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D011788:Quality of Life; D019366:Western World / Q000266:history