{"id":3003,"date":"2007-05-16T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=3"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:51:47","slug":"cosmic-polyphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2007\/05\/cosmic-polyphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic polyphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> Johannes Kepler wrote in 1619: \u201cthe movements of the heavens are nothing except a certain everlasting polyphony (intelligible, not audible) with dissonant tunings, like certain syncopations or cadences (wherewith men imitate these natural dissonances), which tends towards fixed and prescribed clauses \u2013 the single clauses having six terms (like voices) \u2013 and which marks out and distinguishes the immensity of time with these notes.  Hence it is no longer a surprise that man, the ape of his Creator, should finally have discovered the art of singing polyphonically, which was unknown to the ancients, namely in order that he might play the everlastingness of all created time in some short span of an hour by means of an artistic concord of many voices and that he might to some extent taste the satisfaction of God the Workman with His own works, in that very sweet sense of delight elicited from this music which imitates God.\u201d   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannes Kepler wrote in 1619: \u201cthe movements of the heavens are nothing except a certain everlasting polyphony (intelligible, not audible) with dissonant tunings, like certain syncopations or cadences (wherewith men imitate these natural dissonances), which tends towards fixed and prescribed clauses \u2013 the single clauses having six terms (like voices) \u2013 and which marks out 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