Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres (eBook, PDF)

Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony
Redaktion: Prins, Jacomien; Vanhaelen, Maude

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are either mere repetitions of ancient music theory or pre-figurations of the 'Scientific Revolution'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351664196
• Artikelnr.: 49261509

Autorenporträt

Jacomien Prins is a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR) of the University of Warwick. She has worked extensively on the interaction between music theory and philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work includes Harmonisch labyrint (Hilversum: Verloren, 2007), Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Leiden: Brill, 2014), and Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on the Timaeus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book, titled A well-tempered Life: Music, Health and Happiness in Renaissance Learning. Maude Vanhaelen is Associate Professor in the Departments of Classics and Italian at the University of Warwick. She has published articles on the reception of Platonism in 15th and 16th century Italy. she is the author of Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on the Parmenides (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS



Acknowledgements

List of illustrations



Introduction

Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen

Part I: Ancient and Medieval sources

1. Eight Singing Sirens: Heavenly Harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists



Francesco Pelosi



2. Latin and Arabic Ideas of Sympathetic Vibration as the Causes of Effects between Heaven and Earth



Charles Burnett



3. Theory of Cosmic Harmony in Jewish and Muslim Sources



Amnon Shiloah



4. Medieval Variations on a Cosmic Theme



Gabriela Currie



5. "Therout com so gret a noyse": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics



Wolfram Keller



Part II: The Revival of the Doctrine of the Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italy and Germany

6. Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino



Maude Vanhaelen



7. Francesco Giorgi on the Harmony of the Creation and the Catholic Censorship of His Views



Leen Spruit



8. Francesco Patrizi and the 'Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres'



Jacomien Prins



9. The Reception of Ficino's Theory of World Harmony in Germany



Grantley McDonald



Part III: The Tradition of the Harmony of the Spheres in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-centuries Europe and New Spain

10. Cosmic Play in a Symbolic Harmonic Universe: The Reception of Cusanus and Kircher in Seventeenth-century New Spain



Linda Baez-Rubi



11. Andrea Torelli and His Orphic Lyre



Concetta Pennuto



12. The Harmony of the Spheres in English Musical Mathematics, 1650-1750



Benjamin Wardhaugh



13. William Stukeley's 'Music of the Spheres' Man