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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 예술/대중문화 > 음악 > 장르/스타일 > 클래식
· ISBN : 9781138063464
· 쪽수 : 306쪽
· 출판일 : 2017-09-07
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen
Part I: Ancient and Medieval sources
1. Eight Singing Sirens: Heavenly Harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists
Francesco Pelosi
2. Latin and Arabic Ideas of Sympathetic Vibration as the Causes of Effects between Heaven and Earth
Charles Burnett
3. Theory of Cosmic Harmony in Jewish and Muslim Sources
Amnon Shiloah
4. Medieval Variations on a Cosmic Theme
Gabriela Currie
5. "Therout com so gret a noyse": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics
Wolfram Keller
Part II: The Revival of the Doctrine of the Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italy and Germany
6. Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
Maude Vanhaelen
7. Francesco Giorgi on the Harmony of the Creation and the Catholic Censorship of His Views
Leen Spruit
8. Francesco Patrizi and the ‘Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres’
Jacomien Prins
9. The Reception of Ficino’s Theory of World Harmony in Germany
Grantley McDonald
Part III: The Tradition of the Harmony of the Spheres in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-centuries Europe and New Spain
10. Cosmic Play in a Symbolic Harmonic Universe: The Reception of Cusanus and Kircher in Seventeenth-century New Spain
Linda Baez-Rubi
11. Andrea Torelli and His Orphic Lyre
Concetta Pennuto
12. The Harmony of the Spheres in English Musical Mathematics, 1650?1750
Benjamin Wardhaugh
13. William Stukeley’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ Manuscript: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Newtonianism, c. 1720
Tom Dixon
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index
