Cornelia Wilde,Wolfram Keller's Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of PDF

By Cornelia Wilde,Wolfram Keller

ISBN-10: 3110426374

ISBN-13: 9783110426373

Perfect concord and Melting lines assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating ideas of concord in the course of a transitional interval, during which the Pythagorean idea of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and used to be reworked via new theories approximately sound - and new methods of conceptualizing the area. From the views of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions contemplate music's ambivalent place among mathematical abstraction and sensibility, among the metaphysics of concord and the physics of sound. Essays research the past due medieval and early sleek background of rules in regards to the nature of track and cosmic concord, and hint their adjustments in early smooth musico-literary discourses. inside of this framework, essays extra supply unique readings of significant philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary quantity brings into concentration the transformation of a essential Renaissance worldview and of music's clinical, theological, literary, in addition to cultural conceptions and features within the early sleek interval, and may be of curiosity to students of the classics, philosophy, musicology, in addition to literary and cultural studies.

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