Musica Scientia : Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance / Ann Moyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyer, Ann, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italy.

Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology.

Local Subjects:

Italy.

Musical Arts & Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.) : 6 b&w illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Theories of music and its nature have been difficult to integrate into modern scholarship. In Musica Scientia, Ann E. Moyer analyzes the work of the sixteenth-century Italians who debated the nature of music and its relationship to mathematics, the natural sciences, poetry, and rhetoric. Moyer's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the classification of knowledge in the Renaissance and of the process by which two competing kinds of analysis—humanistic and mathematical—came to distinguish the modern arts and sciences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Discipline of Music in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

2. Expansion of the Medieval Tradition

3. Humanists, Mathematicians, and Composers

4. Ancients and Moderns

5. The Science of Sound and the Study of Culture

Conclusions

Glossary

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3727-9

OCLC:

1153486765