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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 drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography--issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past --Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Alternative belief systems

• Full title: Music in Renaissance Magic
• Author: Gary Tomlinson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• EAN: 9780226807928
• ISBN: 0226807924
• ID: 04550025
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 228 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. November 1994

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