by Joscelyn Godwin ยท 1992
ISBN: 1620550962 9781620550960
Category: Music / Genres & Styles / New Age
Page count: 512
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.