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NISHA
Title: NISHA
Category: Literature / English
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NISHA
Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrumentation
and Composition
by Michael Anderson
Philosophy 101
"Music is the harmonization of opposites, the unification
of disparate things, and the conciliation of warring elements...
Music is the basis of agreement among things in nature and of the
best government in the universe. As a rule it assumes the guise
of harmony in the universe, of lawful government in a state, and
of a sensible way of life in …showed first 75 words of 1369 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1369 total…aesthetics, between the natural world and the human soul.
Perhaps the same unifying principle could be applied elsewhere;
and where better to try then with the puzzle of the heavens
themselves." (Ferrara, 1983).
Bibliography
Benade, Arthur H.(1976). Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics. New
York: Dover Publications
Ferrara, Lawrence (1991). Philosophy and the Analysis of Music.
New York: Greenwood Press.
Johnston, Ian (1989). Measured Tones. New York: IOP
Publishing.
Rowell, Lewis (1983). Thinking About Music. Amhurst: The
University of Massachusetts Press.
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