LA M?SICA EN EL PENSAMIENTO HUMANISTA ESPA?OL1
This essay analyses the different ways in which non-musicians reflec ted on music in Spain during the Humanist period: 1) In the broader sense music is taken as a link between number and word and between quadrivium and trivium. Music is considered, in this regard, first, as the guarantor of the harmonious rela tionship between the universe and the soul and, second, as an integral part of rhe torics and poetry, having here a political dimension derived from its persuasive ca pacities and its civilizing power. The practice of instrumental music is taken as a metaphor of both aspects. 2) Commentaries on Classical texts 3) Treatises on Mat hematics 4) Natural Philosophy texts.