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Sing aloud harmonious spheres : Renaissance conceptions of cosmic harmony / edited by Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3800 .S57 2018
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English
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Physical Description:
x, 294 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Contents:
  • Eight singing sirens: heavenly harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists / Francesco Pelosi
  • Harmonic and acoustic theory : Latin and Arabic ideas of sympathetic vibration as the causes of effects between Heaven and Earth / Charles Burnett
  • Theory of heavenly harmony and angelic song in Jewish and Islamic sources / Amnon Shiloah
  • Medieval variations on a cosmic theme / Gabriela Currie
  • "Therout com so gret a noyse" : the harmony of the spheres and Chaucerian poetics / Wolfram R. Keller
  • Cosmic harmony, demons, and the mnemonic power of music in Renaissance Florence: the case of Marsilio Ficino / Maude Vanhaelen
  • Francesco Giorgi on the harmony of creation and the Catholic censorship of his views / Leen Spruit
  • Francesco Patrizi and the "weakest echo of the harmony of the spheres" / Jacomien Prins
  • The reception of Ficino's theory of world harmony in Germany / Grantley McDonald
  • Andrea Torelli and his orphic lyre / Concetta Pennuto
  • Cosmic play in a symbolic harmonic universe: the reception of Cusanus and Kircher in seventeenth-century New Spain / Linda Báez-Rubí
  • The harmony of the spheres in English musical mathematics, 1650-1750 / Benjamin Wardhaugh
  • William Stuckeley's "Music of the spheres" manuscripts : ancient wisdom and modern Newtonianism, c. 1720 / Tom Dixon.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Sing aloud harmonious spheres
ISBN:
  • 9781138063464
  • 1138063460
OCLC:
989862591
Publisher Number:
99974957408

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