| Description |
xiii, 495 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and indexes. |
| Contents |
I. Classical. -- Timaeus : creation of the world-soul / Plato -- Natural History : Pythagorean planet-tones / Pliny the Elder -- Manual of Harmonics : planet-tones and proportions / Nicomachus of Gerasa -- Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato : planet-tones / Theon of Smyrna -- On Music : harmonics and astronomy / Ptolemy -- On the Day of Birth : harmonics, embryology, planets / Censorinus -- Orphic Hymn to Apollo -- Against the Heathen : the cosmic lyre / Saint Athanasius -- On Music : music and the descent of the soul / Aristeides Quintilianus -- Commentary on the Timaeus : World-Soul and universal harmony / Calcidius -- Commentary on the Dream of Scipio : planetary music / Macrobius -- Commentary on the Republic : Sirens and Muses ; Commentary on the Timaeus : division of the World-Soul / Proclus -- The Principles of Music : stars and strings / Boethius. -- II. Medieval. -- Maxims of the Philosophers : aphorisms on music / Hunayn -- Musica Disciplina : modes and planets / Aurelian of Réôme -- Commentary on Martianus Capella : planet-tones / John Scotus Eriugena -- Letter on Harmony : planet-tones, psychology / Regino of Prüm -- Epistle on Music : principles of music ; instrument symbolism ; astronomy / The Ikhwan al-Safaʼ (Brethren of Purity) -- The Perfection of Musical Knowledge : resemblance of soul, music, and the celestial sphere / al-Hasan al-Katib -- "There is a concord of planets ..." : poem on planets and tones / Anonymous of the twelfth century -- The King's Treasures : music as a liberal art / Isaac ben Abraham ibn Latif -- Speculum Musicae : musica mundana / Jacques de Liège -- Declaratio Musicae Disciplinae : musica mundana / Ugolino of Orvieto -- De Musica : planet-tones, angels / Giorgio Anselmi -- The Tree of Life : music between heaven and earth / Isaac ben Haim. -- III. Renaissance. -- Letter on Music to Domenico Benivieni / Marsilio Ficino -- Musica Practica : modes, planets, temperaments / Ramis de Pareja -- Fourteen Pythagorean Conclusions : ratios of parts of soul / Pico della Mirandola -- De Harmonia Musicorum Instrumentorum Opus : muses, soul- and sphere-music, number / Franchino Gafori -- Harmonia Mundi : Timaeus numbers ; macrocosm and microcosm / Francesco Giorgi -- Dodecachordon : muses and tones / Heinrich Glarean -- Institutioni Harmoniche : musica mundana / Gioseffo Zarlino -- Colloquium Heptaplomeres : universal harmony / Jean Bodin. -- IV. Baroque. -- Mysterium Cosmographicum : planetary aspects and intervals ; Harmonices Mundi : planet songs / Johannes Kepler -- Utriusque Cosmi Historia : music of spheres and elements ; harmony of soul and body / Robert Fludd -- Harmonie Universelle : metaphysics of the unison / Marin Mersenne -- Musurgia Universalis : musical experiments ; harmonies of the planets and their satellites / Athanasius Kircher -- Miscellanea Musica : Kabbalistic music / Angelo Berardi -- Hodegus Curiosus : Allegory of Creation / Andreas Werckmeister. -- V. Enlightenment and Romanticism. -- Draft scholia for the Principia : ancient heliocentricity revealed / Isaac Newton -- Traité de l'harmonie : mathematical basis of music ; Nouvelles réflexions : universal principles of the arts / Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Trattato di Musica : music and geometry ; Scienza Platonica : rediscovery of ancient harmonic wisdom / Giuseppe Tartini -- Des erreurs et de la vérité : metaphysics of the common chord / Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin -- Polyhymnia : music as a gift from Zeus / Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg -- The World as Will and Idea : nature and symbolism of music / Arthur Schopenhauer -- La musique expliquée : ancient musical cosmology ; La vraie maçonnerie et la céleste culture : metaphysics of the musical system / Fabre d'Olivet -- L'esprit des bêtes : Fourier's cosmology / Alphonse Toussenel -- Metaphysische Blicke in die Tonwelt : analogy of tone-world with the Godhead / Peter Singer -- Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums : Pythagorean table ; ancient heliocentricity / Albert von Thimus -- What Is Music? : space and time ; tone and color / Isaac Rice -- La Musique : music's eternal principles / Saint-Yves d'Alveydre -- Harmonie des mondes : modern astronomy and harmonics / Azbel. |
| Summary |
"Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin here traces the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos is in some way a musical or harmonious entity."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Harmony of the spheres.
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Harmony of the spheres. |
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
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Harmony of the spheres. |
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school. |
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Pythagoras and Pythagorean school. |
| Added Author |
Godwin, Joscelyn, editor.
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| ISBN |
0892812656 |
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9780892812653 |
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