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In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino’s and Patrizi’s work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.

Ficinus, Marsilius --- Patrizi, Francesco --- Music theory --- Théorie musicale --- History --- Histoire --- Ficino, Marsilio, --- Patrizi, Francesco, --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- Harmony of the spheres. --- Renaissance --- Humanism --- Cosmic harmony --- Harmony (Cosmology) --- Music of the spheres --- Cosmology --- Philosophy, Modern --- Renaissance philosophy --- Music --- Theory --- Patrici, Francesco, --- Patricijus, Franciskus, --- Petrić, Franjo, --- Patricius, Franciscus, --- Patritius, Franciscus, --- Patricio, --- Patricii, Francesco, --- Petrić, Frane, --- Petriš, Franjo, --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио,

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This is the first volume to explore the reception of the Pythagorean doctrine of cosmic harmony within a variety of contexts, ranging chronologically from Plato to 18th-century England. This original collection of essays engages with contemporary debates concerning the relationship between music, philosophy, and science, and challenges the view that Renaissance discussions on cosmic harmony are either mere repetitions of ancient music theory or pre-figurations of the ‘Scientific Revolution’. Utilizing this interdisciplinary approach, Renaissance Conceptions of Cosmic Harmony offers a new perspective on the reception of an important classical theme in various cultural, sequential and geographical contexts, underlying the continuities and changes between Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. This project will be of particular interest within these emerging disciplines as they continue to explore the ideological significance of the various ways in which we appropriate the past

Music --- Harmony of the spheres --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Harmony of the spheres. --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Pythagoras --- Influence. --- Musique --- Harmonie cosmique --- Philosophie de la Renaissance --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Aesthetics --- Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

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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. Essays examine the late medieval and early modern history of ideas concerning the nature of music and cosmic harmony, and trace their transformations in early modern musico-literary discourses. Within this framework, essays further offer original readings of important philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary volume brings into focus the transformation of a predominant Renaissance worldview and of music's scientific, theological, literary, as well as cultural conceptions and functions in the early modern period, and will be of interest to scholars of the classics, philosophy, musicology, as well as literary and cultural studies.

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