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, Rene Descartes, Giordano Bruno and Philipp Melanchton are also discussed.
"Latet discordantia quartae": an early natural-scientifoc explanation of upper-voice foruths by Franchinus Gaffurius
David Cohen
págs. 3-22
págs. 23-48
págs. 49-72
"Intra quaternarii limites musicam intelligunt omnem consonantiam": La musica nel pensiero di Giordano Bruno
págs. 73-88
págs. 89-114
Galileo and opera: music, science, religion and politics in the seventeenth century
págs. 115-154
"La grandezza del numero sonoro": canonic techniques, combinatorics , and early scientific thought in seventeen century Rome
Jason Stoessel, denis Collins
págs. 155-186
Giovanni Battista Doni on the Tonal Space pf Chromatic Musis: the case of Gesualdo's Tu m'uccidi, o crudele
págs. 187-210
Me veux-tu voir mourir: Joan Albert Ban versus Antoine Boësset
págs. 211-250
págs. 251-276
René Descartes And Isaac Becckmann: the philosopher and the schoolmaster
págs. 277-304
The trumpet as nature's voice: Marin Mersenne and the nature of music
págs. 305-334
págs. 335-360
Trajectories of musical acoustics in seventeenth century french theory and experiment: sound, noise, and the authorities of the past
págs. 361-376
The acoustical paradox: how music was unmoored ans set adrift from sciences in the seventeenth century
págs. 377-420
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