{"product_id":"music-in-renaissance-magic-gary-tomlinson-9780226807928","title":"Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others","description":"Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic \"harmony of the celestial spheres\" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMusic in Renaissance Magic, \u003c\/i\u003e Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography-issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past -Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the \u003ci\u003eidea\u003c\/i\u003e of New Age Music-that music can promote spiritual well-being-from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper.\"-Kyle Gann, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music.\"-Peter Burke, \u003ci\u003eNOTES\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gary Tomlinson's \u003ci\u003eMusic in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others\u003c\/i\u003e examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book.\"-Anne Lake Prescott, \u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Tomlinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226807924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226807928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.07h x 6.05w x 0.72d","brand":"Gary Tomlinson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981511983359,"sku":"9780226807928","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_590f8eb8-29e4-4051-894d-4d69cf7f8e1b.jpg?v=1683256017","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/music-in-renaissance-magic-gary-tomlinson-9780226807928","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}