Music in the French Royal Academy of Sciences (eBook)

A Study in the Evolution of Musical Thought

Albert Cohen (Autor)

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2014
178 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5354-0 (ISBN)

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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.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Schlagworte: academician • Accademia del Cimento • acoustics • American Council of Learned Societies • Analogy • Ancient Music • Archives nationales (France) • archivist • Art Music • bembo • Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle • Bertrand Gille (historian) • Bourgeoisie • British Library • Cello • Christiaan Huygens • Claude Perrault • Clavichord • Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers • Daniel Roche • Denis Diderot • Designer • elements of music • Explanation • Georg Joseph Vogler • Glass harmonica • Goermans • guitar • Hans Schneider (mathematician) • Harpsichord • Harpsichordist • Haute-Marne • Illustration • Institut de France • Instrumental • Isaac Beeckman • Jacques de Vaucanson • Jacques Rohault • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Jean Le Rond d'Alembert • Jean Picard • Joseph Sauveur • Julien Le Roy • Just Intonation • Keyboard instrument • La Voix Humaine • Le Juge • Literature • Louis Godin • Marin Mersenne • mathematician • Meantone temperament • Mechanician • Mercure de France • Monochord • Motet • musical composition • Musical development • musical instrument • Musical notation • musicology • music theory • music therapy • National Endowment for the Humanities • Nobility • Organist • Organ stop • Pedal • Philidor • Philip Gossett • Philosopher • Philosophy • phonation • Physical law • Physician • Pierre de Fermat • Pierre Gassendi • Pitch (music) • Princeton University Press • Publication • Pythagorean tuning • Querelle • Raymond Vieussens • René Descartes • Répertoire International des Sources Musicales • Revue • Scientist • Singing • solmization • string instrument • Technology • theory • Theory and Practice • treatise • Two New Sciences • typography • Uppsala University • Valet de chambre • Vocal music • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5354-0 / 1400853540
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5354-0 / 9781400853540