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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Marius Schneider’s “the Primitive Music”: 4 Acoustic Nature of Bonds between Gods and Men
The gods cannot ignore the sound sacrifices that men offer them because these rites touch the very substance of the immortals. They are obliged to participate in it.
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Stradivari offered a glass of wine to a lumberjack one day, the price for a secret code in the Roman calendar. A night when the Moon is unusually not involved.
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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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The music of Sirens, the harmony of spheres, Plato’s dodecahedron, and not only. The important role accorded to sacred geometric music in the Pythagorean school.
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