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music in the Greek drama along with dance and dramatic dialogue. He undertakes to redress what he sees as an imbalance in other accounts that emphasize literary forms to the virtual exclusion of dance and music. In effect, Schueller has produced here a history of philosophy, Greek science, literature, drama, the rise of Christianity and religious practices, including religious music. Part II, "The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages", is a strong statement of the alliance between religious and musical values and the influence of secular music, as well as the evolution of polyphony and musical notation. The work is replete with interesting sidelights : description of a multitude of ancient musical instruments; the observed effects of music on animals; Ptolemy's criticism of the critic; the affinity of music to mathematics; a revisitation ofAugustinian musical theory; the invention of the monochord as a tuning device that establishes standard tone intervals; the evolution of notation and the invention ofvarious types of music printing; detailed accounts of the evolution of musical scales from modes; etc. There is ample material in Schueller's work to make it a valuable reference for topics of particular concern to the historian of music. There is a long tradition in the Western world of trying to reconstruct the instruments, singing techniques , ensembles, etc., of the ancient world. Schueller is under no such illusions. He nowhere claims to be dealing with the actual sounds of music but rather with the theories. The four appendices, notes, select bibliography, and the full index provide ample starting points for further research and study. SCIENCE, ORDER AND CREATIVITY by David Bohm and F. David Peat. Bantam Books, New York, NY,U.S.A., 1987.280 pp. Paper, $8.95. ISBN 0-553-34449-8. Reviewed by LeoNarodny, Barbados optics Ltd., Martin's Bay, Barbados, West Indies. This book arose out of a creative dialogue between two physicists who protested against the catholicism of art, science and religion. As they say, "The ultimate aim of this book has been to arouse an interest in creativity and actually begin the liberation of creative energy" by releasing it from the restraints of rewards and punishments. Creativity is a form of playing by a trained mind, not necessarilya genius. Everybody can play. Our senses limit us to the small spectra ofvision, hearing, smell and taste, and they suggest that time is a secondary dimension, a portion of our multidimensional reality. As electrons can jump from one orbit to another, our consciousness may skip intervening portions of time: we are part of a multidimensional reality that cannot be comprehended in terms of any time-order. In art, a generative order in paintings may proceed, like Benoit Mandelbrot 's 'fractals', towards greater detail . It may likewise move towards a creative picture like]. M. W. Turner's later swirling motions ofwater and air, a 'holomovement' leading to a new order in art. The abstract excitement ofJackson Pollock's work has appealed to multimillion dollar investors all over the world ... an amazing reward for creativity. David Bohm's previous works have shown fragmentation in science and art, and in this work he again proposes an emphasis on the whole, rather than on specialized fragments, as detailed in his Wholeness and theImplicateOrderand further developed in his chapter on the generative order and the implicate order in this work. Henri Poincare missed a bus in Paris when he had a flash of creativity that solved an astronomical problem. I hope this book will not cause the reader to miss a bus, but it may well lead to a sustained creative perception of 'the art of living'. Hopefully this art includes beauty, harmony and enthusiasm as an extension of a scientific attitude toward human relationships . We are living in a supersaturated period in terms of the number of books being published, which has increased by a factor of 10 in the last two decades. This book is a seed crystal that can create a new awareness of our need for a general creative surge in all areas of life. We need a renewed emphasis on ideas, rather than formulae , on the whole rather than fragments , on meaning rather than mechanics , which this book...

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