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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

For references concerning Beeckman, Benedetti,
Descartes, Fogliano, V. Galilei, G. Galilei, Gaffurio, Kepler,
Mersenne, Mei, B. R. de Pareja, Rameau, Salinas, and
Sauveur, see C. V. Palisca, “Scientific Empiricism in Musical
Thought,” in H. H. Rhys, ed., Seventeenth-Century Science
and the Arts
(Princeton, 1961), pp. 91-137. See also Jean
Le Rond d'Alembert, Élémens de musique, théorique et
pratique
(Lyon, 1762); J. M. Barbour, Tuning and Tempera-
ment
(East Lansing, Mich., 1953); E. Bottrigari, Il Desiderio
(Venice, 1594); M. R. Cohen and I. E. Drabkin, A Source
Book in Greek Science
(New York, 1948), pp. 286-310;
R. L. Crocker, “Pythagorean Mathematics and Music,” The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
22 (1963-64),
189-98, 325-35; Signalia Dostrovsky, “The Origins of Vi-
bration Theory: The Scientific Revolution and the Nature
of Music” (Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1969,
unpubl.); Stillman Drake, “Renaissance Music and Experi-
mental Science,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 30 (1969),
483-500; L. Euler, Tentamen novae theoriae musicae
(Petropoli [Saint Petersburg], 1739); A. Eximeno, Dell'origine
delle regole
(Rome, 1774); E. E. Helm, “The Vibrating
String of the Pythagoreans,” Scientific American, 217 (1967),
92-103; H. Helmholtz, On the Sensations of Tone (New
York, 1964); P. Hindemith, Craft of Musical Composition
(New York, 1942); E. Lippman, Musical Thought in Ancient
Greece
(New York, 1964); C. V. Palisca, Girolamo Mei
(Rome, 1960); idem, “The Interaction of the Sciences and
the Arts: A Historical View,” Proceedings of the Fourth
National Conference on the Arts in Education
(Philadelphia,
1965), pp. 19-25; idem, “Fogliano,” “Galilei,” “Gogava,”
“Mei,” “Ramos,” “Salinas,” “Valla,” “Zarlino,” Die Musik
in Geschichte und Gegenwart
(Kassel, 1955-68); G. A. Sorge,
Vorgemach der musikalischen Composition, Erster Theil
(Lobenstein, 1745), Ch. 5; B. Stillingfleet, Principles and
Power of Harmony
(London, 1771); G. Tartini, Trattato di
musica
(Padua, 1754).

CLAUDE V. PALISCA

[See also Astrology; Cosmology; Number; Pythagorean Har-
mony;
Renaissance Humanism.]