This book describes a colorful period in French social and
cultural history, during which music and science combined to
provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of
Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place
assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution,
the Paris Academy, the author shows the role played by the
scientific movement in the evolution of musical thought prior to
the Revolution.
Originally published in 1982.
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