How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
by
Stuart Isacoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of...