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The Music Of The Spheres

The Music Of The Spheres

Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe

by Jamie James
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/03/1994
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From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the cosmos musically, as an ordered mechanism whose smooth operation created a celestial harmony - the music of the spheres. The separation of science and music began with the scientific revolution during the Renaissance, and reached a peak with Romanticism, which celebrated what was human, individual and local. 20th-century science and music, argues Jamie James in this book, have rejected the Romantic ideal and placed the ultimate focus outside the reach of human reason once again. The book provides a survey of the history of science and music, a reassessment of Romanticism and the modernist reaction to it, and a radical intellectual journey.
ISBN:
9780349105420
9780349105420
Category:
Theory of music & musicology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-03-1994
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
288
Dimensions (mm):
198x130x22mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Jamie James

Jamie James is the author of several books of nonfiction, including The Glamour of Strangeness. He has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, among other publications, and he previously served as the American arts correspondent for The Times (London).

He has lived in Indonesia since 1999 and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Grant.

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