Tentamen novae theoriae musicae
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Output type: Monograph
Author list: Euler L
Edition name or number: 1
Publisher: Gutenberg & Co.
Place: Basel
Publication year: 2006
Book title (if part of a book): Tentamen novae theoriae musicae
Title of series: Tentamen novae theoriae musicae
ISBN: 9040394334c./2-343
eISBN: 894343/3434.c.-ff
eISSN: 009203232332
URL: http://www.url.com
Abstract
Passing on the first chapter (on sound and hearing), I come immediately to the bases of Euler's musical theory (he talks in the second chapter "de suavitate et principiis harmoniae"). How to explain that certain sounds appear pleasant and others not? It seems paradoxical to find a rule, since everyone does not like the same things, or the taste of the same person can evolve. Can one lock up an art, like music, in laws? Euler answers that, as for all the fine arts, it is necessary to trust the opinion of enlightened people, therefore in music those whose ear was exerted and who will be able to see the right laws which dictates nature: "Sed Musicum similem se genere oportet Architecto, qui plurimorum perversa de aedificiis iudicia non curans secundum certas et in natura ipsa fundatas leges aedes exstruit; quae etiamsi harum rerum ignaris non placeant, tamen, dum intelligentibus probentur, contentus est."
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