Kepler, Harmony, and the Pythagorean Tradition In Kepler‘s time, music theory encompassed more than it does today. Music theory covered three areas: musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis. Musica mundana studied the process and harmony of the universe, musica humana unified and mediated between the human body and soul, and musica instrumentalis is music as performed by humans. Kepler took musica mundana literally. He believed that the planets performed a concert for inhabitants of the sun, or for a mind in the sun itself. The sun listened to the music, not with ears, but using a visual mechanism. ―Of course,‖ Kepler ponders, ―it is not easy for us, dwelling on Earth, to conjecture what kind of vision might be in the Sun, what eyes, or what other instinct for perceiving these angles even without eyes, and for estimating the harmonies of the motions entering the vestibule of a Mind by some gate; what, finally, that Mind might be, in the Sun. Concerning the Harmony of the Spheres, this is an intellectual tradition linking back to Pythagoras. There are three major influences on Kepler and his work – Pythagoras, Plato, and Ptolemy. And more, the following readings investigate how the concept of HARMONY has unified arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (known as the Greek quadrivium) since the origin of these disciplines. Extras from Michael Cirillo fiddlermike/Mike-Cirillo-Laboratory/Mike-Cirillo-Laboratory-Folder-PDF/Mike-Cirillo-Kepler-Harmony-Pythagoras.pdf
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