Prologue Christoph Strosetzki and María Victoria Curto Hernández 1. Unity of Macrocosm and MicrocosmHarmony of the Universe Gudrun Wolfschmidt 2. Ancient Roots of the Quadrivium Joscelyn Godwin 3. The Concept of Musica Mundana between ca. 1250 and 1350* Frank Hentschel 4. Concentus of Nations: Francesco Giorgio's De harmonia mundi totius Karsten Mackensen 5. Tuning Love: Gender and Harmony in the Early Modern Imagination Jacomien Prins 6. Psychosomatic Means of Harmonizing with the Divine Cosmos: Music and Dance in María de Santo Domingo (c.

1486-1524) María Victoria Curto Hernández 7. Musical and Architectural Harmony in Renaissance Spain Amaya S. García Pérez 8. Music Between Anagogy and Neoplatonic Metaphysics: Tapia Numantino, Antonio Cabezón, and Pérez de Moya Christoph Strosetzki 9. Gracia Baptista and Antonio de Cabezón: Relearning to Play the Harpsichord after an Ischemic Stroke Yaho Mahúgo Carles 10. Music and Epilepsy Yerko-Petar Ivanovic-Barbeito 11. BeautyIts Value and Its Healing Potential: Viewpoints from Antiquity, Aesthetics, and Neuroscience Christiane Neuhaus 12. From Phoneme to Rhythm: Towards a Systematization of Metrical Scansion of Spanish Golden Age Plays Fernando Sanz-Lázaro 13.

Meter and Rhyme of Evil: The Demon's Dissonance in Lope de Vega's First Hagiographic Play (1594) Gaston Gilabert 14. The Baile para el Mundo in the Auto El Pastor Fido by Pedro Calderón de la Barca María Asunción Flórez Asensio 15. From Number to Language: Following some Traces of Harmony in the 18th Century Oliver Wiener 16. The Harmonia Perfecta Maxima -The Mysterious Eternal Bond between Mathematics and Music Karlheinz Schüffler 17. Musica Mundana , the Copernican Revolution, the Spanish Golden Age, and Present-Day Cosmology Eduardo Battaner 18. Harmonies and Symmetries: our Understanding of the Physical Universe from 1500 to Now (from Copernicus to Higgs) Anton Andronic 19. The Harmony of the World in the 21st Century -Star Figures as Archetypes of Cosmic Order Hartmut WarmList of ContributorsIndex.