The Music of the Spheres
Subtitle: music, science, and the natural order of the universe
By: Jamie James.
Publisher: Copernicus, an imprint of Springer Verlag
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780387944746
Subjects: Music and science; Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Science -- Philosophy; Harmony of the spheres
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-24) and index.
Originally published: New York : Grove Press, 1993.
Table of contents: title: The great theme; title: Pythagoras, the master; title: Plato and the world soul; title: "The key to the universe"; title: The Renaissance Musici; title: The music of the spheres and the birth of the opera; title: The hermetic tradition; title: Kepler Pythagorizes; title: Newton and The Magic Flute; title: The romantic anomaly; title: Schoenberg and the revival of the great theme; title: Into the future