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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788037003321

Autore

Prins Jacomien

Titolo

Echoes of an invisible world : Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on cosmic order and music theory / / by Jacomien Prins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28176-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Brill Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 234

Disciplina

781.092/245

Soggetti

Music theory - History - 15th century

Music theory - History - 16th century

Philosophy, Renaissance

Harmony of the spheres

Renaissance - Italy

Humanism - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Universe as a Musical Creation -- 3 Man as a Co-Creator of His Harmonic Nature -- 4 From the Music of the Spheres to the Mathematization of Space -- 5 Man’s Nostalgia for a Lost Musical Paradise -- 6 Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.