The Polyphony of the Spheres
Blair Sullivan
"The Polyphony of the Spheres." Every student music history learns that earliest extant description polyphonic performance Western is found in an anonymous Carolingian theory treatise, Musica enchiriadis, from around A.D. 900. What seems to have gone unnoticed, however, procedure also mentioned Remigius Auxerre's contemporary commentary on Martianus Capella's encyclopedic work has come be known as De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. The reference does not occur, one would expect, section containing glosses Martianus's book harmony, but sustained allegory, informed by Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean metaphysics, presents books 1 2. identification a practice liturgical exemplum most striking metaphors explained variation theme first stated 1500 years before undertook exposition Pythagorean-Platonic harmony spheres.
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