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Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences

Author : Albert Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400853540

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This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution, the Paris Academy, the author shows the role played by the scientific movement in the evolution of musical thought prior to the Revolution. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Music and the Renaissance

Author : Philippe Vendrix
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351557504

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Music and the Renaissance by Philippe Vendrix Pdf

This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up new avenues in the world of music. These articles offer as broad a vision as possible of the ways of thinking about music which developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Speaking of Music

Author : Keith Chapin,Andrew H. Clark
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823251384

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Speaking of Music by Keith Chapin,Andrew H. Clark Pdf

Addresses the ways that writers, musicians, philosophers, politicians, critics, and scholars speak of music from varying standpoints and in varying ways

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Author : Tim Carter,John Butt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521792738

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music by Tim Carter,John Butt Pdf

First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.

Number to Sound

Author : Paolo Gozza
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0792360699

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Number to Sound by Paolo Gozza Pdf

This volume deals with the origin of the modern conception of the object as well as the subject of music - of musical sound as well as man as the recipient of music. This is what music offered to the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries. The story is developed in 12 essays written by influential musicologists and historians of science. Starting from the magic of numbers of Pythagorean and neo-Platonic doctrines, the essays lead the reader to `sound' and `affections' in modern terms. The conceptual framework that grasps the intellectual shift from number to sound is new, it relates to the ontological change of the object of music to the psychological change of man as the subject (viz., the recipient and beneficiary) of music.

The Harpsichord and Clavichord

Author : Igor Kipnis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1323 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135949778

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The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.

Liber Amicorum John Steele

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0945193807

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Liber Amicorum John Steele by Anonim Pdf

John Steele was educated at Victoria University of Wellington, and at Cambridge University, where he was a student of Thurston Dart. Steele was the first New Zealander to become a professional musicologist, and the first to achieve international repute, largely for his work on Italian music of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume has been undertaken by the New Zealand Musicological Society as a tribute to its most distinguished member on the occasion of his retirement from Otago University. The main focus of the collection is the music of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Music and the Making of Modern Science

Author : Peter Pesic
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780262543903

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A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Author : Thomas Christensen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521617093

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Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment by Thomas Christensen Pdf

"Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.

The Early Pianoforte

Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521417295

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The Early Pianoforte by Stewart Pollens Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano.

Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music

Author : Benjamin Wardhaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351539203

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Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music by Benjamin Wardhaugh Pdf

This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical notation, involving a new set of clefs which he claimed, and Locke denied, would make learning and performing music much easier (these writings are the subject of Volume I). Later in his life Salmon devoted his attention to an exploration of the possible reform of musical pitch. He made or renewed contact with instrument-makers and performers in London, with the mathematician John Wallis, with Isaac Newton and with the Royal Society of London through its Secretary Hans Sloane. A series of manuscript treatises and a published Proposal to Perform Musick, in Perfect and Mathematical Proportions (1688) paved the way for an appearance by Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705, when he provided a demonstration performance by professional musicians using instruments specially modified to his designs. This created an explicit overlap between the spaces of musical performance and of experimental performance, as well as raising questions about the meaning and the source of musical knowledge similar to those raised in his work on notation. Benjamin Wardhaugh presents the first published scholarly edition of Salmon's writings on pitch, previously only available mostly in manuscript.

Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music

Author : Robert Marshall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135887766

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Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music by Robert Marshall Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Heinrich Schenker

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : 0918728991

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Heinrich Schenker by Anonim Pdf

Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.

The Scientific Revolution

Author : William E. Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781576075340

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The Scientific Revolution by William E. Burns Pdf

An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the physical world. Many are familiar with the ideas of Copernicus, Descartes, and Galileo. But here the reader is also introduced to lesser known ideas and contributors to the Scientific Revolution, such as the mathematical Bernoulli Family and Andreas Vesalius, whose anatomical charts revolutionized the study of the human body. More marginal characters include the magician Robert Fludd. The encyclopedia also discusses subjects like Arabic science and the bizarre history of blood transfusions, and institutions like the Universities of Padua and Leiden, which were dominant forces in academic medicine and science.

Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134262946

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Reader's Guide to the History of Science by Arne Hessenbruch Pdf

The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.