Taking as testimonies the monocordes of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries (understood as a musical and scientific instrument at the same time) Carlos Calderón, doctor in Humanities, architect and musician, presents the process in which that undifferentiated knowledge - the so-called Harmony- is split into music itself and in physical acoustics, that is, in art and in science.
This process, which begins with the practical approach of Ramos de Pareja, crosses Zarlino's humanism and ends in the experimentation of Mersenne and the metaphors of Galileo, allowed the music - once more and just as Pythagoreans did - serve as a midwife to the intellectual revolutions of European culture: the scientist.
UPCOMING SESSIONS:
Thursday 5 December
What is Ondes Martenot?
By Tomomi Kubo
Thursday 19 December
Sounds with sybarite air
By Piero Pesce and Gianni Ginesi