This article revaluates the significance of musical treatises written by the Ficinian physician Robert Fludd (1574–1637). By reconsidering the implications of Fludd’s interpretation of Marsilio Ficino’s musical philosophy, I propose that his “reconstruction” of the Renaissance outlook in the seventeenth century is not merely a backward-looking oddity, but is rather indicative of a long-standing and pervasive history of inaudible music (i.e., the “silent” harmony of the universe and of the human body). Music played a central role in Fludd’s polemics with the scientists Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), regarding not the composition of art music but rather the understanding of the composition of the universe itself. ...
Medieval music is difficult. When performed, its harmonies are often pretonal, its rhythms obscure, ...
In the eighteenth century polyphony—from simply being a term denoting a musical technique—became an ...
This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural his...
This article revaluates the significance of musical treatises written by the Ficinian physician Robe...
The present thesis is an enquiry into the nature and consistency of the idea of music as a metaphor ...
This paper explores the musical theory of Marsilio Ficino, a 15th century Italian philosopher. Exami...
This article focuses the contribution of music to the construction of the scientific image of the wo...
Leonardo da Vinci famously characterized music as âgiving shape ⦠to invisible thingsâ;1 the author...
Music theory of almost all ages has relied on cosmology and philosophy of nature in its attempts to ...
[Début de l'article] The concept of the Renaissance as a period in the history of music does not app...
In this article, I use Louis-Bertrand Castel’s attempt to create a music of colours as a wind...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.December 2019. Major: History of Science, Technology, an...
Adam von Fulda, German musician, composer and teacher, completed his important treatise on music in...
This article examines William Shakespeare's plays for their relationship to Reformation music. It sk...
The subject of the article is Scene 6 from Act III of Luigi Rossi’s musical drama Il Palazzo incanta...
Medieval music is difficult. When performed, its harmonies are often pretonal, its rhythms obscure, ...
In the eighteenth century polyphony—from simply being a term denoting a musical technique—became an ...
This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural his...
This article revaluates the significance of musical treatises written by the Ficinian physician Robe...
The present thesis is an enquiry into the nature and consistency of the idea of music as a metaphor ...
This paper explores the musical theory of Marsilio Ficino, a 15th century Italian philosopher. Exami...
This article focuses the contribution of music to the construction of the scientific image of the wo...
Leonardo da Vinci famously characterized music as âgiving shape ⦠to invisible thingsâ;1 the author...
Music theory of almost all ages has relied on cosmology and philosophy of nature in its attempts to ...
[Début de l'article] The concept of the Renaissance as a period in the history of music does not app...
In this article, I use Louis-Bertrand Castel’s attempt to create a music of colours as a wind...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.December 2019. Major: History of Science, Technology, an...
Adam von Fulda, German musician, composer and teacher, completed his important treatise on music in...
This article examines William Shakespeare's plays for their relationship to Reformation music. It sk...
The subject of the article is Scene 6 from Act III of Luigi Rossi’s musical drama Il Palazzo incanta...
Medieval music is difficult. When performed, its harmonies are often pretonal, its rhythms obscure, ...
In the eighteenth century polyphony—from simply being a term denoting a musical technique—became an ...
This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate the complexity of European cultural his...