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Author:   Jacomien Prins (Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy) ,  Maude Vanhaelen
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367888626

ISBN 10:   0367888629
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"CONTENTS Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen Part I: Ancient and Medieval sources 1. Eight Singing Sirens: Heavenly Harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists Francesco Pelosi 2. Latin and Arabic Ideas of Sympathetic Vibration as the Causes of Effects between Heaven and Earth Charles Burnett 3. Theory of Cosmic Harmony in Jewish and Muslim Sources Amnon Shiloah 4. Medieval Variations on a Cosmic Theme Gabriela Currie 5. ""Therout com so gret a noyse"": The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics Wolfram Keller Part II: The Revival of the Doctrine of the Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italy and Germany 6. Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino Maude Vanhaelen 7. Francesco Giorgi on the Harmony of the Creation and the Catholic Censorship of His Views Leen Spruit 8. Francesco Patrizi and the ‘Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres’ Jacomien Prins 9. The Reception of Ficino’s Theory of World Harmony in Germany Grantley McDonald Part III: The Tradition of the Harmony of the Spheres in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-centuries Europe and New Spain 10. Cosmic Play in a Symbolic Harmonic Universe: The Reception of Cusanus and Kircher in Seventeenth-century New Spain Linda Baez-Rubi 11. Andrea Torelli and His Orphic Lyre Concetta Pennuto 12. The Harmony of the Spheres in English Musical Mathematics, 1650–1750 Benjamin Wardhaugh 13. William Stukeley’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ Man"

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Jacomien Prins is a Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR) of the University of Warwick. She has worked extensively on the interaction between music theory and philosophy in the Renaissance. Her work includes Harmonisch labyrint (Hilversum: Verloren, 2007), Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Leiden: Brill, 2014), and Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on the Timaeus (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming). She is currently working on a book, titled A well-tempered Life: Music, Health and Happiness in Renaissance Learning. Maude Vanhaelen is Associate Professor in the Departments of Classics and Italian at the University of Warwick. She has published articles on the reception of Platonism in 15th and 16th century Italy. she is the author of Marsilio Ficino: Commentary on the Parmenides (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012).

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