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  • Since the term harmonia could mean, among other things, the interval of the octave, some commentators made of

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

  • 233 For education Aristotle recommends an ethical mode such as Dorian or Lydian, while the Phrygian harmonia is described as "a kind of agitation by which some people are liable to be possessed," arousing religious catharsis and orgiastic Bacchic frenzy. 234

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Schubert: Piano Sonatas D.840; 850 & 894 Paul Lewis. n/a. harmonia mundi.

    Schubert: Piano Sonatas D840, 850 and 894; Impromptus D899; Klavierstücke D946 2011

  • O exterior da banheira é pintada em harmonia com os padrões de beleza ou até mesmo retratos incomuns que contribuam para o interior de um banheiro original e personalizado.

    Upholstered Bathtub: Comfortably Glamorous 2010

  • When fitted together, they demonstrate the harmonia of a material craft that embodies an intellectual tradition of splitting ideas into categorical parts and compositional units for reassembly. 38 27

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • “Una fonte di Cornelio Agrippa: il ˜De harmonia mundi™ di Francesco Giorgio Veneto.”

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • De harmonia mundi, another entity closely related to the soul, the “spirit” (spiritus), which he conceives as a material substance, though extremely refined and subtle, generated by the heat of the heart.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • De verbo mirifico Lyons edition, De harmonia mundi, John Dee's Monas hieroglyphica.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • De verbo mirifico Lyons edition, De harmonia mundi, John Dee's Monas hieroglyphica.

    Insouciant Young Geoffrion 2009

  • Philolaus 'primary example of such a harmonia of limiters and unlimiteds is a musical scale, in which the continuum of sound is limited according to whole number ratios, so that the octave, fifth, and fourth are defined by the ratios 2: 1, 3

    Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

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