Pythagoras was credited with having elaborated on the theory of the musica universalis, where the numeric proportions observed in celestial bodies translated into musical pit… See more

Plato maintained that the arts could shape one’s character to a great extent, and, for that reason, they needed to be strictly controlled. Poetry, drama, music, painting, dance can … See more

Leibniz had a Scholastic background, and, as a consequence, music was regarded as a byproduct of mathematics: he defined it as “an unconscious exercise in arithmetic in which the … See more

In his Analysis of Beauty, Hogarth isolated six principles that could affect beauty: fitness, variety, regularity (in the sense of “composed variety”), simplicity, intricacy, namely a di… See more