The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution

Gouk, Penelope

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“…Especially in western music, harmony has been established as a science, although previously, there was a dynamic understanding of harmony, especially before the seventeenth century. Gouk clearly states that harmony is about music, body and soul, and the universe (Gouk, 2008). Finally, after the seventeenth century, the harmony of music's harmony regulates the combination of tones, or a collection of tones played together (Prier SJ, 1989).…”

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Re-Actualization Balinese Gamelan Harmony for Renewal Knowlegde of the Balinese Music

Ardana

2021

IJCAS

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Balinese music has a variety of gamelan that develops in the community. Balinese gamelan is a central object in the development of Balinese musical knowledge. One of the most problematic is the harmony system. In the context of Balinese music knowledge, the harmony system is an element that is often discussed its existence. The 'harmony system' has been recognized through the dualistic concept. This concept is the source of the technique for playing the Balinese Gamelan. Knowledge of the harmony system with this dualistic concept is based on the object of research by Gamelan Gong Kebyar. Gamelan Gong Kebyar is indeed very closely related to the dualistic system. However, this system is not relevant to several other Balinese Gamelan, one of which is the Gamelan Gambang. Therefore, knowledge of the harmony system in Balinese music needs to be updated. This update is an actualization of knowledge about gamelan harmony. The problems discussed in this article are what is Balinese Gamelan harmony, what is the roles of Balinese Gamelan harmony and the concept of Balinese musical harmony. This reaserch uses a mix method, namely qualitative and quantitative methods. Musicology approach as a qualitative method while sound physics as a quantitative method. Re-aktualisasi Harmoni Gamelan Bali untuk Pembaruan Pengetahuan Musik Bali Abstrak Karawitan Bali memiliki ragam gamelan yang berkembang di masyarakat. Gamelan Bali merupakan objek sentral dalam pengembangan pengetahuan karawitan Bali. Salah satu yang paling bermasalah adalah sistem harmoni. Dalam konteks pengetahuan karawitan Bali, sistem harmoni merupakan unsur yang sering dibicarakan keberadaannya. Sistem harmoni terepresentasi melalui konsep dualistik. Konsep inilah yang menjadi sumber teknik memainkan Gamelan Bali pada umumnya. Pengetahuan sistem harmoni dengan konsep dualistik ini berdasarkan objek penelitian Gamelan Gong Kebyar. Gamelan Gong Kebyar memang sangat erat kaitannya dengan sistem dualistik. Namun sistem ini tidak relevan dengan beberapa Gamelan Bali lainnya, salah satunya Gamelan Gambang. Oleh karena itu, pengetahuan tentang sistem harmoni dalam karawitan Bali perlu dimutakhirkan. Pembaruan ini merupakan aktualisasi pengetahuan tentang harmoni gamelan. Permasalahan yang dibahas dalam artikel ini adalah apa yang dimaksud dengan harmoni Gamelan Bali, batasan harmoni Gamelan Bali dan model harmoni secara musikal gamelan Bali. Penelitian ini menggunakan mixmethode , yaitu metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif. Pendekatan musikologi sebagai metode kualitatif sedangkan fisika bunyi sebagai metode kuantitatif.

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Re-Actualization Balinese Gamelan Harmony for Renewal Knowlegde of the Balinese Music

Ardana

2021

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“…It is significant, therefore, that one type of machinery that he chose as a point of reference for understanding the human anatomy was the category of musical instruments. While Descartes was not the first to apply this analogy (Gouk 2006: 239), his fusion of it with his Mechanistic Philosophy was novel. Among the musical instruments to which he compared the human body was the pneumatic organ, which he associated with the church:If you have ever had the curiosity to examine the organs in our churches, you know how the bellows push the air into certain receptacles (which are called, presumably for this reason, wind-chests).…”

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The Anthropomorphic Analogy: Humanising musical machines in the early modern and contemporary eras

Cypess

Kemper

2018

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Since the late twentieth century, the development of cybernetics, physical computing and robotics has led artists and researchers to create musical systems that explore the relationship between human bodies and mechanical systems. Anthropomorphic musical robots and bodily integrated ‘cyborg’ sensor interfaces explore complementary manifestations of what we call the ‘anthropomorphic analogy’, which probes the boundary between human artificer and artificial machine, encouraging listeners and viewers to humanise non-musical machines and understand the human body itself as a mechanical instrument.These new approaches to the anthropomorphic analogy benefit from historical contextualisation. At numerous points in the history of Western art music, philosophers, critics, composers, performers and instrument designers have considered the relationship between human musician and musical instrument, often blurring the line between the two. Consideration of historical examples enriches understandings of anthropomorphism in contemporary music technology.This article juxtaposes the anthropomorphic analogy in contemporary musical culture with manifestations of anthropomorphism in early seventeenth-century Europe. The first half of the seventeenth century witnessed a flourishing of instrumentality of all sorts. Musical instruments were linked with the telescope, the clock, the barometer, the paintbrush, and many other instruments and machines, and these came to be understood as vehicles for the creation of knowledge. This flourishing of instrumental culture created new opportunities for contemplation and aesthetic wonder, as theorists considered the line between human being and machine – between nature and artifice. Manifestations of the anthropomorphic analogy in seventeenth-century conceptions of musical instruments help to contextualise and explain similar articulations of the anthropomorphic analogy in the present day.

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“…We will return later to natural magic, but first I want to draw attention to music's place in the system of knowledge and how this has changed over the passage of time. Nowadays music is classified as a performing art, yet until the middle of the eighteenth century it was generally counted among the mathematical disciplines, specifically the branch of mathematics known as harmonics (Gouk, 2002;Christensen 1993). In its narrowest sense, harmonics was the study of the mathematical relations underlying the structure of audible music.…”

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Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

Gouk

2012

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The seventeenth century witnessed major advances in physics and experimental science. This paper argues that while the role of new visual technologies (e.g. the microscope) has been well studied, less attention has been paid to acoustic technologies in early modern natural philosophy. In particular, I attend to the relationship between making music, a specific form of organised sound mediated through instruments, and the production of new scientific knowledge. On the one hand, this relationship developed in the context of acoustics, a new discipline first mapped out by Francis Bacon. On the other hand, music’s relationship to natural philosophy was also more fundamental, since harmony was understood as an organising principle of the universe, the laws of musical strings providing a model for other forms of vibrative motion. I also show the importance of musical training for Galileo’s experiments and the significance of harmony for Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.

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The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution

Cited by 36 publications

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Re-Actualization Balinese Gamelan Harmony for Renewal Knowlegde of the Balinese Music

Re-Actualization Balinese Gamelan Harmony for Renewal Knowlegde of the Balinese Music

The Anthropomorphic Analogy: Humanising musical machines in the early modern and contemporary eras

Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

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