Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture Between Sensibility and Abstractio

English | ISBN: 3110426374 | 2021 | 162 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound - and new ways of conceptualizing the world. From the perspectives of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions consider music's ambivalent position between mathematical abstraction and sensibility, between the metaphysics of harmony and the physics of sound.