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Number to Sound - The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Number to Sound - The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, 64
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Number 10 Sound: The Musical Way 10 the Scientific Revolution is a
collection of twelve essays by writers from the fields of
musicology and the history of science. The essays show the idea of
music held by Euro th pean intellectuals who lived from the second
half of the 15 century to the th early 17: physicians (e. g.
Marsilio Ficino), scholars of musical theory (e. g. Gioseffo
Zarlino, Vincenzo Galilei), natural philosophers (e. g. Fran cis
Bacon, Isaac Beeckman, Marin Mersenne), astronomers and mathema
ticians (e. g. Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei ). Together with
other people of the time, whom the Reader will meet in the course
of the book, these intellectuals share an idea of music that is far
removed from the way it is commonly conceived nowadays: it is the
idea of music as a science whose object-musical sound--can be
quantified and demonstrated, or enquired into experimentally with
the methods and instruments of modem scientific enquiry. In this
conception, music to be heard is a complex, variable structure
based on few simple elements--e. g. musical intervals-, com bined
according to rules and criteria which vary along with the different
ages. However, the varieties of music created by men would not
exist if they were not based on certain musical models--e. g. the
consonances-, which exist in the mind of God or are hidden in the
womb of Nature, which man discovers and demonstrates, and finally
translates into the lan guage of sounds."
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