Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions International, ©1993.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-481) and indexes.
- I. Classical. — Timaeus : creation of the world-soul / Plato — Natural History : Pythagorean planet-tones / Pliny the Elder — Manual of Harmonics : planet-tones and proportions / Nicomachus of Gerasa — Mathematics Useful for Understanding Plato : planet-tones / Theon of Smyrna — On Music : harmonics and astronomy / Ptolemy — On the Day of Birth : harmonics, embryology, planets / Censorinus — Orphic Hymn to Apollo — Against the Heathen : the cosmic lyre / Saint Athanasius — On Music : music and the descent of the soul / Aristeides Quintilianus — Commentary on the Timaeus : World-Soul and universal harmony / Calcidius — Commentary on the Dream of Scipio : planetary music / Macrobius — Commentary on the Republic : Sirens and Muses Commentary on the Timaeus : division of the World-Soul / Proclus — The Principles of Music : stars and strings / Boethius. — II. Medieval. — Maxims of the Philosophers : aphorisms on music / Hunayn — Musica Disciplina : modes and planets / Aurelian of Réôme — Commentary on Martianus Capella : planet-tones / John Scotus Eriugena — Letter on Harmony : planet-tones, psychology / Regino of Prüm — Epistle on Music : principles of music instrument symbolism astronomy / The Ikhwan al-Safaʼ (Brethren of Purity) — The Perfection of Musical Knowledge : resemblance of soul, music, and the celestial sphere / al-Hasan al-Katib — There is a concord of planets … : poem on planets and tones / Anonymous of the twelfth century — The King’s Treasures : music as a liberal art / Isaac ben Abraham ibn Latif — Speculum Musicae : musica mundana / Jacques de Liège — Declaratio Musicae Disciplinae : musica mundana / Ugolino of Orvieto — De Musica : planet-tones, angels / Giorgio Anselmi — The Tree of Life : music between heaven and earth / Isaac ben Haim. — III. Renaissance. — Letter on Music to Domenico Benivieni / Marsilio Ficino — Musica Practica : modes, planets, temperaments / Ramis de Pareja — Fourteen Pythagorean Conclusions : ratios of p
Subjects:
- Music — Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Harmony of the spheres.
- Pythagoras and Pythagorean school.
- EstÉtica Da MÚsica. larpcal
- Pythagore, (0580?-0500? av. J.-C.) ram
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