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Echoes of an invisible world : Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on cosmic order and music theory / by Jacomien Prins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prins, Jacomien, author.
- Series:
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 234.
- Brill Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; Volume 234
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music theory--History--15th century.
- Music theory.
- Music theory--History--16th century.
- Philosophy, Renaissance.
- Harmony of the spheres.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Humanism--Italy.
- Humanism.
- Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
- Ficino, Marsilio.
- Patrizi, Francesco, 1529-1597.
- Patrizi, Francesco.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (473 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino’s and Patrizi’s work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Universe as a Musical Creation
- 3 Man as a Co-Creator of His Harmonic Nature
- 4 From the Music of the Spheres to the Mathematization of Space
- 5 Man’s Nostalgia for a Lost Musical Paradise
- 6 Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28176-2
- OCLC:
- 897378878
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004281769 DOI
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