Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music, published in 1

The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century.

This fascinating, scholarly study by one of the world's foremost authorities on Galileo offers a vivid portrait of one of history's greatest minds. Detailed acc

The ancient singing and dancing chorus has exerted a powerful influence in the modern world. This is the first book to look systematically at the points of simi

A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the nat