Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others

by Gary Tomlinson

Book Overview

Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226807924
• ISBN13: 9780226807928
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"