Aldrovandi’s focus on music as culture, as a means of understanding the world and its inhabitants, as irreplaceable nourishment for the scientist's intellectual curiosity, is a page yet to be written in the history of the relationship between music and science in the 16th and early 17th century. Focusing on the printed edition of the Latin translation of Aristoxenus’ musical treatise in his library, this article outlines some further directions of a research project on Aldrovandi’s musical legacy that intends to explore ancient and contemporary musical treatises, as well as the sounds and music of the natives, as narrated by travellers and explorers of the “New World”.

L’interesse di Aldrovandi per la musica come cultura, come mezzo per comprendere il mondo e i suoi abitanti, come nutrimento insostituibile per la curiosità intellettuale dello scienziato, è una pagina ancora da scrivere nella storia dei rapporti tra musica e scienza, nel XVI e nel primo XVII secolo. Concentrandosi sull’edizione a stampa della traduzione latina del trattato musicale di Aristosseno presente nella sua biblioteca, questo articolo delinea alcune altre direzioni di un progetto di ricerca sull’eredità musicale di Aldrovandi che esplorerà i trattati musicali antichi e contemporanei, nonché i suoni e la musica dei nativi trasmessi nelle narrazioni dei viaggiatori ed esploratori del Nuovo Mondo.

D. Restani (2024). Aldrovandi’s Musical Legacy: not just Aristoxenus. Towards New Research Horizons. ALDROVANDIANA, 3(1), 47-57 [10.30682/aldro2401e].

Aldrovandi’s Musical Legacy: not just Aristoxenus. Towards New Research Horizons

D. Restani
2024

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Aldrovandi’s focus on music as culture, as a means of understanding the world and its inhabitants, as irreplaceable nourishment for the scientist's intellectual curiosity, is a page yet to be written in the history of the relationship between music and science in the 16th and early 17th century. Focusing on the printed edition of the Latin translation of Aristoxenus’ musical treatise in his library, this article outlines some further directions of a research project on Aldrovandi’s musical legacy that intends to explore ancient and contemporary musical treatises, as well as the sounds and music of the natives, as narrated by travellers and explorers of the “New World”.
2024
D. Restani (2024). Aldrovandi’s Musical Legacy: not just Aristoxenus. Towards New Research Horizons. ALDROVANDIANA, 3(1), 47-57 [10.30682/aldro2401e].
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