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"Unterricht, Wie durch Anweiß und Hülffe 
des Monochordi ein Clavier wohl zu temperiren
             und zu stimmen sei, 
damit man nach heutiger Manier alle modos fictos
             in einer erträglichen 
und angenehmen harmoni vernehme".




well-tempered reasoning apparent







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graced epistemology

A false idea about the nature of creation 
 always reflects itself in a false idea about God.


         Tomas de Aquino









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FOUND POEM

TRANSITIONS BETWEEN 
   THE BACK AND THE FRONT
        CAN BE A BALANCING ACT




                              ..experience reminds us once again

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what is the sound of 9,346...pythagoras? answer me!

       


    Music is 
        number made
     audible





.....pythagoras was crazy

roger scruton protests

Rhythm is not the same thing as measure. It is not just a matter of dividing time into repeatable units. It is a matter of organizing it into a form of movement, so that one note invites the next into the space that it has vacated. This is exactly what goes on in dancing—real dancing, I mean. And complaints that might be made against the worst form of pop apply also to the lame attempts at dancing that it generally produces—attempts which involve no control of the body, no attempt to dance with another person, but at best only the attempt to dance at him or her, by making movements sliced up and atomized.




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the treatise should be understood

sicut 
   
    judaeis 

              non







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in a pythagorean mode

Light reveals the glories of the external world 
and yet is the most glorious of them all. 
It gives beauty, reveals beauty and is itself most beautiful. 
It is the analyzer, the truth-teller and the exposer of shams, 
for it shows things as they are.
Its infinite streams measure off the universe
 and flow into our telescopes from stars 
which are quintillions of miles distant. 
On the other hand 
it descends to objects inconceivably small, 
and reveals through the microscope objects
 fifty millions of times less than
 can be seen by the naked eye. 
Like all other fine forces, its movement is wonderfully soft, 
yet penetrating and powerful. 
Without its vivifying influence,
 vegetable, animal, and human life 
must immediately perish from the earth, 
and general ruin take place. 
We shall do well, then, to consider 
this potential and beautiful principle of light and its component colors, 
for the more deeply we penetrate into its inner laws, 
the more will it present itself 
as a marvelous storehouse of power to vitalize, 
heal, refine, and delight mankind.




                                       Edwin D. Babbitt










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