1. Concept and idea of music
The connotations of the Greek musikḗ [téchnē] and the Latin [ars] musica went far beyond the idea of music as an art of making sound or organizing acoustic events. As Boëthius explained in De (institutione) musica (early 6th century CE; “On Music”), the music heard on earth (musica instrumentalis) was an imitatio of the musica mundana (the universal “music of the celestial bodies” or “sphere…