Music and science from Leonardo to Galileo / edited by Rudolf Rasch

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rasch, Rudolf, 1945- editor.

Series:

Music, science & technology ; v. 5.

Music, science & technology ; volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and science--History.

Music and science.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

440 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, music, portraits ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2022

Summary:

"Music is not only an art (either as the art of composition or the art of performance) but also a subject for scientific investigation. Scientists have always been interested in musical sound, philosophers in the impact of music on the human mind, and musicians may have been puzzled by the scientific foundations of their art. This book collects fourteen studies by authors from various countries about the interrelations between music and science as apparent in the long century from the lifetime of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) to that of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), a period termed Renaissance, Early Modern or the time of the (first) Scientific Revolution depending on the angle from which this period is approached. It is a time when the Aristotelian physics was replaced by modern pre-Newtonian physics, when Catholicism was challenged by the Reformation, when traditional polyphonic musical styles were supplemented by new monodic styles, vocal and instrumental. Both Leonardo and Galileo had vivid interests in music, but they were not the only ones. The ideas of scientists and philosophers, such as Marin Mersenne, René Descartes, Giordano Bruno and Philipp Melanchton are also discussed."-- website publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The (Long) Sixteenth Century Music

«Latet discordantia quartae»: An Early Natural-Scientific Explanation of Upper-Voice Fourths by Franchinus Gaffurius / David E. Cohen

Science

Teoria musicale e patronage nobiliare a Venezia nel Cinquecento / Paolo Alberto Rismondo

Nascent Mechanism in Philip Melanchthon's References to Josquin des Prez / Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman

«Intra quaternarii limites musicam intelligunt omnem consonantiam»: La musica nel pensiero di Giordano Bruno / Carlo Bosi

Dissezioni anatomiche con musica a Padova nella prima eta moderna / Gioia Filocamo

The (Long) Seventeenth Century Music

Galileo and Opera: Music, Science, Religion, and Politics in the Seventeenth Century / Daniel Martin Saez

«La grandezza del numero sonoro»: Canonic Techniques, Combinatorics, and Early Scientific Thought in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Denis Collins

Giovanni Battista Doni on the Tonal Space of Chromatic Music: The Case of Gesualdo's Tu m'uccidi, o crudele / Carlos C. Iafelice

Me veux-tu voir mourir: Joan Albert Ban versus Antoine Boesset (1640-1641) / Rudolf Rasch

La Missa La lunapiena (1657-1658) di Giuseppe Corsi e le teorie galileiane / Galliano Ciliberti

Rene Descartes and Isaac Beeckman: The Philosopher and the Schoolmaster / Rudolf Rasch

The Trumpet as Nature's Voice: Marin Mersenne and the Nature of Music / Leendert van der Miesen

Joachim Jungius and the Question of Music as an Experimental `Mixed Science' / Roberta Vidic

Trajectories of Musical Acoustics in Seventeenth-Century French Theory and Experiment: Sound, Noise, and the Authorities of the Past / Theodora Psychoyou

The Acoustical Paradox: How Music Was Unmoored and Set Adrift from Sciences in the Seventeenth Century / Adam Fix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index

ISBN:

9782503600802

2503600808

OCLC:

1317681687

Publisher Number:

99992567928