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Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony

Name: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony
ISBN: 9781040784662

From Sound to Music

Leendert Miesen,

English
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eBook - ePub

Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony

From Sound to Music

Leendert Miesen,

About this book

Marin Mersenne and the Study of Harmony delves into the central role of music among the early modern sciences by focusing on the work of the French polymath Marin Mersenne (1588–1648). Although now regarded more as an art than a science, music was for many early modern scholars a universal science for studying the harmonies present in all beings. For Mersenne, music's ability to be quantified while being experienced aesthetically meant that it was the central science to approximate the sounding and inaudible harmonies present in the world and universe at large. Bringing together Mersenne's interests in the physics of sound and hearing, musical composition, instruments, curiosities, and music from outside Europe, this book shows why so many scholars were drawn to music and how music was at the center of the early modern debate on the foundations of knowledge.

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