Download or read book Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences written by Albert Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution, the Paris Academy, the author shows the role played by the scientific movement in the evolution of musical thought prior to the Revolution. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Historical Performance of Music written by Colin Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1999 overview of historical performance, surveying issues and suggesting future developments.
Download or read book Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment written by Thomas Christensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen orients Rameau's accomplishments in the light of contemporaneous traditions of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. Rameau is revealed to be an unsuspectedly syncretic and sophisticated thinker, betraying influences ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents and manuscripts (many revealed here for the first time) help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists: Diderot, Rousseau, and d'Alembert." "This book will be of value to all music theorists concerned with the foundations of harmonic tonality and it should also be of interest to scholars of eighteenth-century science, the Enlightenment, and the general history of ideas."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Reader s Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Download or read book Diderot s Part written by Andrew H. Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally. In Western Europe during the 1750s, the human body was reconceptualized as physiologists began to emphasize the connections, communication, and relationships among relatively autonomous somatic parts and an animated whole. This new conceptualization was part of a larger philosophical and epistemological shift in the relationship of part to whole, as discovered in that of bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic. Starting from Diderot's concept of the body as elaborated from the physiological research and speculation of contemporaries such as Haller and Bordeu, the author investigates how the logic of an unstable relationship of part to whole animates much of Diderot's writing in genres ranging from art criticism to theatre to philosophy of science. In particular, Clark examines the musical figure of dissonance, a figure used by Diderot himself, as a useful theoretical model to give insight into these complex relations. This study brings a fresh approach to the classic question of whether Diderot's work represents a consistent point of view or a series of ruptures and changes of position.
Download or read book Music in the Royal Society of London 1660 1806 written by Leta E. Miller and published by Detroit : Information Coordinators. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A General History of the Science and Practice of Music A New Edition with the Author s Posthumous Notes Supplementary Volume of Portraits written by John Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fran ois Blondel written by Anthony Gerbino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First director of the Académie royale d'architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as a mathematician, scientist, and scholar. Few figures are more representative of the close affinity between architecture and the "new science" of the seventeenth century. The first full-length study in English to appear on this polymath, this book adds to the scholarship on early modern architectural history and particularly on French classicism under Louis XIV and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert. It studies early modern science and technology, Baroque court culture, and the development of the discipline of architecture.
Download or read book Music and the Renaissance written by Philippe Vendrix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume unites a collection of articles which illustrate brilliantly the complexity of European cultural history in the Renaissance. On the one hand, scholars of this period were inspired by classical narratives on the sublime effects of music and, on the other hand, were affected by the profound religious upheavals which destroyed the unity of Western Christianity and, in so doing, opened up new avenues in the world of music. These articles offer as broad a vision as possible of the ways of thinking about music which developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Science Literature and Art written by W. T Brande and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Download or read book Mathematical Geography in the Eighteenth Century Euler Lagrange and Lambert written by Renzo Caddeo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the beautiful memoirs of Euler, Lagrange and Lambert on geography, translated into English and put into perspective through explanatory and historical essays as well as commentaries and mathematical notes. These works had a major impact on the development of the differential geometry of surfaces and they deserve to be studied, not only as historical documents, but most of all as a rich source of ideas.
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Seventeenth Century Music written by Tim Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005, this title provides extensive knowledge on seventeenth-century music.
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Download or read book Dictionary of Dates and Universal Reference Relating to All Ages and Nations With Copious Details of England Scotland and Ireland Etc written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a historical dictionary, with particular emphasis on entries relating to the British Empire.
Download or read book The Cyclop dia of Education written by Henry Kiddle and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
