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The musica universalis (literally universal music), also called music of the spheres or harmony of the spheres, is a philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies —the Sun, Moon, and planets —as a form of music. The theory, originating in ancient Greece, was a tenet of Pythagoreanism, and was later ...
Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni ("The Universal Musical Art, of the Great Art of Consonance and Dissonance") [1] is a 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was printed in Rome by Ludovico Grignani [2]: xxxiii and dedicated to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. [3]: 11 It was a compendium of ancient and ...
The concept of musical harmonies intrinsically existing within the spacing of the planets existed in medieval philosophy prior to Kepler. Musica universalis was a traditional philosophical metaphor that was taught in the quadrivium , and was often called the "music of the spheres."
The Arca Musarithmica as depicted in "Musurgia Universalis". The Arca Musarithmica (also Arca Musurgia or Musical Ark) is an information device that was invented by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in the mid 17th century. Its purpose was to enable non musicians to compose church music. Through simple combinatoric techniques it is capable of ...
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, [6][note 1] commonly known simply as Boethius (/ boʊˈiːθiəs /; Latin: Boetius; c. 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages. He was a central figure in the translation of the Greek classics into Latin, a precursor to the ...
The 1957 Encyclopédie Larousse [1] defines a cell in music as a "small rhythmic and melodic design that can be isolated, or can make up one part of a thematic context". The cell may be distinguished from the figure or motif: the 1958 Encyclopédie Fasquelle [1] defines a cell as "the smallest indivisible unit", unlike the motif, which may be divisible into more than one cell.
Music of the Spheres is the 24th album by English musician Mike Oldfield, released in the United Kingdom on 17 March 2008. The album, Oldfield's second album with Mercury Records and his first classical work, is based on the concept of a celestial Musica universalis.
James Haar (July 4, 1929 – September 15, 2018) [1] was an American musicologist and W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist in Renaissance music, he was the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 1966 to 1969 and served as the president of ...