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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe - Softcover

James, Jamie

 
9780387944746: The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0387944745 ISBN 13: 9780387944746
Verlag: Springer, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The parallel histories of music and science - from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes that formed chords and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony that composers sought to capture. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century of Einstein, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Cage, and Glass, this is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.

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Jamie James is the New York music critic for the London Times.

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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 Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0387944745
ISBN 13 
9780387944746
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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