Chemistry, physics, metaphysics, and mathematics. According to Lucas (1854), musicians, too ignorant to go beyond convention, have tied themselves hand and foot to mathematics. If today it is normal for us to depend on the dictatorship of calculation and analysis, it was misleading for the ancients.
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Louis Lucas, l’Acoustique Nouvelle or the New Acoustic: preface
My translation of l’Acoustic Nouvelle by Louis Lucas. The preface by Théodore de Banville is cultured and full-bodied, as befits 1854. And as typical of the time, it is also full of unnecessary words.
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