The Music of the Spheres

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 286 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780387944746

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jamie James is the New York music critic for the London Times.