Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance
Language: English
Published by NCROL, 1992
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Dust jacket condition: Like New. Appears as new. Text free of highlighting and writing. Tightly bound. Winner of the 1993 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies Theories of music and its nature have been difficult to integrate into modern scholarship. In Musica Scientia, Ann E. Moyer analyzes the work of the sixteenth-century Italians who debated the nature of music and its relationship to mathematics, the natural sciences, poetry, and rhetoric. Moyer's book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the classification of knowledge in the Renaissance and of the process by which two competing kinds of analysis--humanistic and mathematical--came to distinguish the modern arts and sciences. 325 pages. Music--Italy--15th century--History and criticism, Music--Italy--16th century--History and criticism, Music theory--History--15th century, Music theory--History--16th century, Renaissance--Italy, Humanism--Italy.
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- Title
- Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance
- Author
- Moyer, Ann E.
- Publisher
- NCROL
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801424267
- ISBN 13
- 9780801424267
- Item weight
- 24 ounces
- Dimensions
- 1 x 6.8 x 9.8 inches
- Seller catalogs
- Music History & Criticism
Moyer begins with a clear and concise historical summary of ancient and medieval musical thought, emphasizing the importance of the Phythagorean teachings about music, transmitted to the medieval world through Boethius's De institutione arithmetica. Describing the factors that, in the late fifteenth century, led scholars and practicing musicians to raise new questions about the discipline and its study, Moyer closely analyzes the writings of the sixteenth-century Italians who debated the nature of music and its relationship to mathematics, the natural sciences, poetry, and rhetoric. Renaissance thinking about music, she shows, wrought a dramatic change in the understanding of the field: scholars came to distinguish between a science of sounding bodies and an art of music, an art to be studied in terms of poetics and the history of taste.
Moyer's book offers a new and systematic treatment of a critical but neglected aspect of Renaissance thought. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the classification of knowledge in the Renaissance and of the process by which two competing kinds of analysis--humanistic and mathematical--came to distinguish the modern arts and sciences.
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