Sing Aloud Harmonious Spheres by Prins Jacomien. Vanhaelen Maude. & Maude Vanhaelen

Author:Prins, Jacomien.,Vanhaelen, Maude. & Maude Vanhaelen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

As a consequence of his abandonment of numerical world harmony as a system of eternal, harmonic laws, which also underpin the human soul and earthly music, Patrizi needs to come up with a new explanation to preserve the notion of music as an art with a cosmological range that can influence the human soul. To this end, he shifts the concept of the harmony of the spheres from the realm of the mathematical sciences to the realm of the rhetorical arts. His approach bears witness to a belief in a universal musical grammar behind the development and change of cultural and historical phenomena.

According to him, it is precisely because of their unreflective and direct character as part of nature that of animal sounds represent an unspoiled expression of natural order, whilst human speech sounds and music are seen as being more susceptible to alteration and degeneration of eternal harmonic laws, because men are able to influence their musical expressions consciously. Thus, animal speech is taken as a point of departure for the study of the musical origins of language, which he associates with the harmonic archetypal music of Creation. This archetypal language, which as a secret musical structure is also hidden in all the different languages of man, must be rediscovered and revived in order to create a solid theoretical basis for poetry and music.

Patrizi begins his research into manifestations of archetypal harmonic laws in speech by stating that animals, like human beings, use speech to communicate and to express their passions (emotions), each in their own articulated language. In his search for the musical origins of language, he compares human and animal speech28:

Human beings have a need for a new set of rules for their speech, considering the small variations from place to place. And often [speech] is such that the animals speak more sweetly than people. Many men in many parts of both the old and the new world inflect their language without any or with hardly any articulation. Certain birds on the other hand do inflect their language in such a way that it is far more articulated [than] any human language, [but also] more varied and pleasant. They themselves do not understand their language any less well at all than human beings do their own, and the sound they bring forth resonates more sweetly. Why else do certain birds and man alone, and also the hyena know how to inflect their voices in several distinct sounds (or even syllables) and to differentiate between [these sounds]?29

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