The music of the spheres : music, science, and the natural order of the universe /
"For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism---mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With 'The Music of the Sph...
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New York :
Copernicus,
1995, c1993.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Great Theme
- 2. Pythagoras, the Master
- 3. Plato and the World Soul
- 4. "The Key to the Universe"
- 5. The Renaissance Musici
- 6. The Music of the Spheres and the Birth of the Opera
- 7. The Hermetic Tradition
- 8. Kepler Pythagorizes
- 9. Newton and The Magic Flute
- 10. The Romantic Anomaly
- 11. Schoenberg and the Revival of the Great Theme
- 12. Into the Future.