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The discovery of musical equal temperament in China and Europe in the sixteenth century / Gene Jinsiong Cho.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3809 .C47 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cho, Gene J.
- Series:
- Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 93.
- Studies in the history and interpretation of music ; v. 93
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical temperament--China--History.
- Musical temperament.
- Musical temperament--Europe--History.
- Music theory--China--History--16th century.
- Music theory.
- Music theory--Europe--History--16th century.
- Zhu, Zaiyu, 1536-1611.
- Zhu, Zaiyu.
- Stevin, Simon, 1548-1620.
- Stevin, Simon.
- History.
- Europe.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 331 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Music and Cosmology in Ancient Civilizations
- Chapter I. Music and Man 15
- Chapter II. Knowledge and Learning in Early Civilization 19
- Chapter III. The Rise of the Caste of Lunarians 25
- Chapter IV. Numerology and Geometria (Gematria) 35
- Chapter V. The Quadrivium and Scholasticism 41
- Part 2 The Meeting of the Eastern and Western Minds
- Chapter VI. From Empiricism to Experimentatio 63
- Chapter VII. The Wise Men from the West 73
- Chapter VIII. The Saga of Matteo Ricci and the Early Jesuits in China 81
- Part 3 The Quest, The East and The West
- Chapter IX. Chinese Experiments 147
- 1. Synopsis of Tonal Theory in China 159
- 2. Zhu Zaiyu, the Philosophical Mathematician 175
- Chapter X. Western Experiments 209
- 1. Synopsis of Tonal Theory in Europe 209
- 2. Simon Stevin, the Pragmatic Mathematician 215
- Chapter XI. The Reception of Theory of Equal Temperament 227
- 1. Reception of Stevin's Theory 227
- 2. Reception of Zhu's Theory 234
- Chapter XII. A Coalescence of Eastern and Western Minds, and the Question of the Transmission of Zhu's Theory 239
- Postscript: The Cosmology and Ecumenism of Equal Temperament 279
- I. Chronological Listing of Zhu Zaiyu's Published Works 301
- II. Chronology of Notable Scientific and Cultural Events in Europe and China From 1500 to 1610, Principally as Related to the Present Study 304
- III. Selected Authors and Treatises in Alphabetical Order, with Chinese Ideogram 312.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0773469419
- OCLC:
- 50851636
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