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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe
The Music of the Spheres Music Science and the Natural Order of the Universe Author:Jamie James For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes that formed chordes and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritu... more »al, eternal) that composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythogoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century of Einstein, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Cage, and Glass, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.« less