Dialogue on Ancient And Modern Music (Music Theory Translation Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300090455
ISBN 13
9780300090451
Category
music
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
464
Description
Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1581 or 1582 and now translated into English for the first time, was among the most influential music treatises of his era.Galilei is best known for his rejection of modern polyphonic music in favor of Greek monophonic song. The treatise sheds new light on his importance, both as a musician who advocated a new philosophy of music history and theory based on an objective search for the truth, and as an experimental scientist who was one of the founders of modern acoustics. - from Amzon
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