This thesis considers the relationship between music and science during the 17th century, the period of which is characterized as the term "the Scientific Revolution". In the chronology of music history, Baroque music has been cultivated by both specu...
This thesis considers the relationship between music and science during the 17th century, the period of which is characterized as the term "the Scientific Revolution". In the chronology of music history, Baroque music has been cultivated by both speculative tradition and more practical empiricist approach. Based the situation of the coexisting old and new perspectives, I attempted to consider music in association with the contemporary scientific field. I maintain my focus on the contemporary empiricist approach and scientific development especially in acoustics and astronomy, and on the influence of the coexistent tendency of traditional and progressive methodology. Therefore I aim to investigate the concept of modernity and a change of way of thinking in the fields of music and science of the transitional period.