From Renaissance to Baroque : change in instruments and instrumental music in the seventeenth century : proceedings of the National Early Music Association Conference held, in asso...

Subjects: “…Musical instruments History 17th century Congresses.…”
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Structures of feeling in seventeenth-century cultural expression /

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Curious and modern inventions : instrumental music as discovery in Galileo's Italy / by Cypess, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of instrumentality: the material and the ephemeral in early modern -- Instrumental music -- Instruments of the affetti: Biagio Marini's Affetti musicali (1617) -- Portraiture in motion: instrumental music and the representation of the Affetti -- "Curiose e moderne inventioni": Biagio Marini's Sonate (1626) and Carlo Farina's "Capriccio stravagante" (1627) as collections of curiosities -- Instruments of timekeeping: the case of Frescobaldi's Toccate e partite ... libro primo -- The stile moderno and the art of history: artisanship and historical consciousness in the works of Dario Castello.…”
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Philosophies of technology : Francis Bacon and his contemporaries /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Volume -- One -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction (Claus Zittel) -- Part I -- Beginnings -- Chapter 1 -- "Industrious Observations, Grounded Conclusions, and Profi table Inventions and Discoveries; the Best State of That Province": Technology and Culture during Francis Bacon's Stay in France -- Chapter 2 -- Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and The Secrets of Nature -- Chapter 3 -- Technical Knowledge and the Advancement of Learning: Some Questions about 'Perfectibility' and 'Invention' -- Chapter 4 -- The Weatherglass and its Observers in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Part II -- Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias -- Chapter 5 -- The Role of Mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration -- Chapter 6 -- Bacon's Brotherhood and its Classical Sources: Producing and Communicating Knowledge in the Project of the Great Instauration -- Chapter 7 -- The Whale under the Microscope: Technology and Objectivity in Two Renaissance Utopias -- Volume -- 2 -- Part III -- Metaphoric Models -- Chapter 8 -- The Role of Metaphors in William Harvey's Thought -- Chapter 9 -- Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundation of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of Ren233; Descartes -- Chapter 10 -- Descartes as Bricoleur -- Part IV -- Bacon's Legacy: The Impact for the Arts and Sciences -- Chapter 11 -- The Poet and the Philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg Philipp Harsdrffer -- Chapter 12 -- Formal Causes and Mechanical Causes: The Analogy of the Musical Instrument in Late Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy -- Chapter 13 -- The Modern Wonder and its Enemies: Courtly Innovations in the Spanish Renaissance -- Chapter 14 -- The Gap between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century -- Chapter 15 -- Sentimental Hydraulics: Utopia and Technology in 18th-Century France -- Chapter 16 -- History Redoubled: The Synthesis of Facts in Linnaean Natural History -- Chapter 17 -- Rescue Attempts: Scientific Images and the Mysteries of Power in the Era of Louis XIV -- Index Nominum.…”
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