340 Index
Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (ca. 480 – 526
C.E.), 1 – 2, 10 – 13, 18 – 21, 27, 32, 35, 50, 56,
60 – 63, 66, 77, 117, 123, 135
Bohr, Niels (1885 – 1962), 275 – 276
Boltzmann, Ludwig (1844 – 1906), 256, 263, 265
B ó lyai, J á nos (1802 – 1860), 232
Brahe, Tycho (1546 – 1601), 104
Brahms, Johannes (1833 – 1897), 229, 257 – 258, 260
Brentano, Clemens (1778 – 1842), 188
Broglie, Louis de (1892 – 1987), 273, 275
Bruno, Giordano (1548 – 1600), 63
Bubbles, 156, 282 – 283
Bunsen, Robert (1811 – 1899), 248
Buridan, Jean (ca. 1300 – after 1358), 46, 293n44
Burmeister, Joachim (ca. 1566 – 1629), 78
Cadence, 3, 39 – 45, 80, 82, 84 – 88, 158
Cage, John (1912 – 1992), 282
Calendar, 49, 52
Camerata, 48, 70
Cardano, Girolamo (1501 – 1576), 3, 55 – 60, 69 – 70
Carole , 22, 46
Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius Senator (ca.
485 – ca. 585 C.E.), 27
Champollion, Jean-Fran ç ois (1790 – 1832), 179
Chant
Gregorian, 31, 38, 76 – 78
Turkish, 75 – 78, 80 – 81, 84
Charles V (king of France; 1338 – 1380), 21 – 22
Chemistry, 188 – 191, 195, 245, 249
Chladni, Ernst (1756 – 1827), 4, 178, 181 – 193, 198,
200, 205, 207, 251, 279
Chords, 4, 84, 229, 272
hexachord, 36
seventh, 70, 72, 136 – 137, 158 – 159
Christianity, 25, 32, 63, 77 – 78, 105
Circle, 14, 22, 33, 49, 97 – 98, 200, 211, 219, 221,
288n31
Clark, Suzannah, 90
Clavius, Christopher (1538 – 1612), 53
Clifford, William Kingdon (1845 – 1879), 242
Clio, 81
Clock, 114, 214
Cohen, H. Floris, 6, 90, 92, 97
Color
analogy with sound, 3, 121 – 130, 153 – 160, 164,
173 – 176, 189, 203, 222, 247
parameters of, 219 – 220
vision, 172 – 174, 217 – 222, 228, 231, 235, 238 – 241,
272 – 277
Combination tones, 166, 226 – 227, 234
Comedy, 139 – 140
Commensurability, 15, 21 – 22, 28 – 33, 66 – 67
Concertina, 205
Consonance, 10, 17, 29, 35, 47, 53, 60, 71, 73, 78,
80, 93, 96 – 97, 105, 109, 114, 135 – 137
Cooke, William (1806 – 1879), 213Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473 – 1543), 2, 22 – 25, 46 – 53,
100, 104 – 107
Cosmology
Copernican, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30, 33, 40, 46 – 52
geocentric, 2, 19 – 28, 36, 49 – 52
heliocentric, 2, 19, 22, 24, 28, 46 – 49, 52, 105, 109
Coulomb, Charles-Augustine de (1736 – 1806), 185,
188, 196
Counterpoint, 35, 255
Counting, 14 – 17, 144
Culture
aural, 1, 6
material, 6
Curvature, 215, 233, 273 – 274, 277
Gaussian, 231
D ’ Alembert, Jean le Rond (1717 – 1783), 236
Dance, 4, 9, 15, 22, 24, 34, 46, 67, 74, 92, 133,
162
Dante, 38
Davy, Humphrey (1778 – 1829), 177, 195, 205
Deaf, music for the, 97, 112 – 113
Debye, Peter (1884 – 1966), 273, 275
Dedekind, Richard (1831 – 1916), 233
Degree of agreeableness, 4, 135 – 142
de la Rive, Charles Gaspard (1770 – 1834), 196
de Muris, Johannes (ca. 1290 – ca. 1355), 22, 32, 46
Descartes, Ren é (1596 – 1650), 3, 6, 89 – 102, 116,
121, 137, 151, 155, 196, 280
and Mersenne, 90, 93 – 103, 116, 137
Desedimentation, 284
des Prez, Josquin (ca. 1450 – 1521), 2, 35, 38 – 45,
282, 288n6
de Vitry, Phillipe (1291 – 1361), 32
Dimensionality, 5, 191, 207, 231 – 242, 273, 274, 278,
279 – 280, 307
Dirac, P. A. M. (1902 – 1984), 278
Dissonance, 11, 47, 53 – 54, 105, 109, 114, 223, 272,
282
and Euler, 135, 137, 139 – 140, 158
and Kepler, 78, 80, 84, 86
Drake, Stillman (1910 – 1993), 6 – 7
Dyad, concept of, 16
Dynamics, 96, 188, 191, 193, 198, 200, 242, 255,
273, 276, 280
e , 143
Ear
accommodation of, 264
drum, 226, 236
ossicles, 226, 234 – 236
physiology of, 98, 156, 172, 189, 226, 233 – 236,
306n25
Earth, 2 – 3, 22, 24 – 25, 27 – 28, 31, 35 – 38, 46 – 49,
53 – 55, 73, 80 – 87, 99 – 101, 104 – 105, 116, 124,
188, 282
Education, 2, 9, 14, 19 – 20, 179, 195, 158, 265