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Music and Science in the Age of Galileo

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Victor Coelho

    1. Department of Music, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 51)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Historical, Contemporary, and Celestial Models for the Musical and Scientific Revolution in the Age of Galileo

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Music and Philosophy in Early Modern Science

      • Stillman Drake
      Pages 3-16

    3. Beats and the Origins of Early Modern Science

      • H. Floris Cohen
      Pages 17-34

    4. Music and the Crisis of Seventeenth-Century Europe

      • Alexander Silbiger
      Pages 35-44

    5. Kepler, Galilei, and the Harmony of the World

      • Owen Gingerich
      Pages 45-63

  3. Symbolical and Philosophical Perspectives on Galileo and Music

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. The Artistic Patronage of the Barberini and the Galileo Affair

      • Frederick Hammond
      Pages 67-89

    3. Musical Myth and Galilean Science in Giovanni Serodine’s Allegoria Della Scienza

      • Victor Coelho
      Pages 91-114

    4. Tickles, Titillations, and the Wonderful Accidents of Sounds: Galileo and the Consonances

      • Robert E. Butts
      Pages 115-127

    5. Galileo and the Demise of Pythagoreanism

      • William Jordan
      Pages 129-139

  4. The Musical Background of Seventeenth-Century Science: Theory, Practice, and Craftmanship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Was Galileo’s Father an Experimental Scientist?

      • Claude V. Palisca
      Pages 143-151

    3. Vincenzo Galilei in Rome: His First Book of Lute Music (1563) and Its Cultural Context

      • Howard Mayer Brown
      Pages 153-184

    4. Six Seventeenth-Century Dutch Scientists and Their Knowledge of Music

      • Rudolf A. Rasch
      Pages 185-210

    5. In Tune With the Universe: The Physics and Metaphysics of Galileo’s Lute

      • Robert Lundberg
      Pages 211-239

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 241-251
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About this book

Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture of Galileo's time. The essays take a broad historical approach towards understanding such topics as the role of music in Galileo's experiments and in the scientific revolution, the musical formation of scientists, Galileo's impact on the art and music of his time, the scientific knowledge of instrument builders, and the scientific experiments and cultural context of Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei. This volume opens up new areas in both musicology and the history of science, and twists together various strands of parallel work by musicians and scientists on Galileo and his time.
This book will be of interest to musicologists, historians of science and those interested in interdisciplinary perspectives of the late Renaissance -- early Baroque. For its variety of approaches, it will be a valuable collection of readings for graduate students, and those seeking a more integrated approach to historical problems.
The book will be of interest to historians of science, philosophers, musicologists, astronomers, and mathematicians.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Music, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Victor Coelho

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