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The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution

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Editors:
  1. Paolo Gozza

    1. Department of Philosophy and Department of Music, University of Bologna, Italy

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Part of the book series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science (WONS, volume 64)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Paolo Gozza
      Pages 1-63

  3. Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Sounding Numbers

      1. The Harmony of the Spheres
        • Daniel P. Walker
        Pages 67-77
      2. “Desiderio da Pavia” and Renaissance Musical Theory
        • Paolo Gozza
        Pages 79-96

    3. Music & Spirit

      1. Marsilio Ficino: The Soul and the Body of Counterpoint
        • Brenno Boccadoro
        Pages 99-134
      2. Music in Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy
        • Penelope M. Gouk
        Pages 135-152

  4. Transition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. Geometry vs Arithmetic

      1. A Renaissance Mathematics: The Music of Descartes
        • Paolo Gozza
        Pages 155-172
      2. The Structure of Harmony in Johannes Kepler’s <i>Harmonice Mundi</i> (1619)
        • Michael Dickreiter
        Pages 173-188

    3. The Uses of Experience

      1. Was Galileo’s Father an Experimental Scientist?
        • Claude V. Palisca
        Pages 191-199
      2. The Expressive Value of Intervals and the Problem of the Fourth
        • Daniel P. Walker
        Pages 201-215

  5. Reassessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Sound, Matter & Motion

      1. Galileo Galilei
        • H. Floris Cohen
        Pages 219-232
      2. Isaac Beeckman
        • H. Floris Cohen
        Pages 233-264

    3. Mechanics & Affections

      1. Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony
        • Peter Dear
        Pages 267-288
      2. Moving the Affections Through Music: Pre-Cartesian Psycho-Physiological Theories
        • Claude Victor Palisca
        Pages 289-308

  6. Erratum

    1. Erratum

      • Paolo Gozza
      Pages 323-323

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 309-322
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy and Department of Music, University of Bologna, Italy

    Paolo Gozza

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Number to Sound

  • Book Subtitle: The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution

  • Editors: Paolo Gozza

  • Series Title: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9578-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6069-8Published: 31 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5358-9Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-9578-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1566-659X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1974

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 322

  • Topics: History, general, Music, Modern Philosophy

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