Number to Sound: The Musical Way to the Scientific Revolution

Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Preface & Acknowledgements. Introduction; P. Gozza. Tradition. 1. Sounding Numbers. The Harmony of the Spheres; D.P. Walker. `Desiderio da Pavia' and Renaissance Musical Theory; P. Gozza. 2. Music & Spirit. Marsilio Ficino: The Soul and the Body of Counterpoint; B. Boccadoro. Music in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy; P.M. Gouk. Transition. 3. Geometry vs. Arithmetic. A Renaissance Mathematics: the Music of Descartes; P. Gozza. The Structure of Harmony in Johannes Kepler's Harmonice mundi (1619); M. Dickreiter. 4. The Uses of Experience. Was Galileo's Father and Experimental Scientist?; C.V. Palisca. The Expressive Value of Intervals and the Problem of the Fourth; D.P. Walker. Reassessment. 5. Sound, Matter & Motion. Galileo Galilei; H.F. Cohen. Isaac Beeckman; H.F. Cohen. 6. Mechanics & Affections. Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony; P. Dear. Moving the Affections Through Music: Pre-Cartesian Psycho-Physiological Theories; C.V. Palisca. Index.