The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music [Hardcover]

Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day.Musician, scholar, and professor of music at Colgate University, Joscelyn Godwin is the author of numerous books, includingHarmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimension of Music. He is also the editor ofCosmic Music: Keys to the Musical Interpretation of RealityandMusic,Mysticism,and Magic.Preface and Acknowledgments

I. Classical
1. Plato
2. Pliny The Elder
3. Nicomachus of Gerasa
4. Theon of Smyrna
5. Ptolemy
6. Censorinus
7. The Hymns of Orpheus
8. Saint Athanasius
9. Aristeides Quintilianus
10. Calcidius
11. Macrobius
12. Proclus
13. Boethius

II. Medieval
14. Hunayn
15. Aurelian of Reome
16. John Scotus Eriugena
17. Regino of Prum
18. The Ikhwan Al-Safa (Brethren of Purity)
19. Al-Hasan Al-Katib
20. Anonymous of the Twelfth Century
21. Isaac Ben Abraham Ibn Latif
22. Jacques De Liege
23. Ugolino of Orvieto
24. Giorgio Anselmi
25. Isaac Ben Haim

III. Renaissance
26. Marsilio Ficino
27. Ramis de Pareja
28. Pico Della Mirandola
29. Franchino Gafori
30. Francesco Giorgi
31. Heinrich Glarean
32. Gioseffo Zarlino
33. Jean Bodin

IV. Baroque
34. Johannes Kepler
35. Robert Fludd
36. Marin Mersenne
37. Athanasius Kircher
38. Angelo Berardi
39. Andeas Werckmeister

V. Enlightenment and Romanticism
40. Isaac Newton
41. Jean-Philippe Rameau
42. Giuseppe Tartini
43. Louis-Claude De Saint-Martin
44. Johann Friedrich Hugo Von Dalberg
45. Arthur Schopenhl3o