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Ellen DeGeneres and Bill Pullman star in “Mr. Wrong,” the new comedy from director Nick Castle.
Wrong
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Astronomyprofessor
links music, science
By Patrick Hambrecht
Senior Reporter
Galileo’s dad was largely re
sponsible for Professor Martin
Gaskell playing a crumhom in front
of his Astronomy classes Monday
and Tuesday.
And, according to Gaskell, the
astronomer’s father was entirely to
blame for the rock ‘n’ roll phenom
enon.
Gaskell played'lhe musical
equivalents of Mars, Venus and
other planets on his horn, using the
formulas that astronomer Johannes
Kepler developed from the musical
theories ofVinccnzo Galilei, father
of the famous Galileo Galilei.
“Do you realize the last time my
wife and I played a concert, it was
$25 a head? So you’re doing quite
well. You’re getting quite a bar
gain,” Gaskell joked to the class.
Gaskell said Kepler applied
musical theory to the planets in the
same way way modem scientists
tried to explain the universe by us
ing quarks and atoms.
Kepler is famous for discover
ing the three laws of planetary mo
tion, and that planets rotate around
the sun in ellipses instead circles.
“Venus is a boring planet, and
Venus has a boring tune,” Gaskell
said, before blowing three identical
notes in his crumhorn. The
crumhom is a medieval woodwind
instrument,named for its crumpled,
or bent, end.
“There are lyrics too,” Gaskell
said. “The earth was not a happy
place in those days. The earth was
going around the sun, singing ‘Mis
er-y, Mis-er-y, Mis-er-y.’”
He said because of the earth’s
horrible tone, Kepler used an espe
cially eerie note: A-flat.
“At the time, A-flat was a very
weird, very far-out note,” Gaskell
said.
Showing Kepler’s intellectual
connection between music and as
tronomy is part of what a proper
liberal education is all about,
Gaskell said.
“I view education as something
more than what’s in the book and
what’s on the test,” he said.
Kepler applied his knowledge
of astronomy to song to solve a
musical problem of the 1500s.
“In their view, music had to be
perfect, and it wasn’t,” Gaskell said.
“Music is inperfect. If you follow
the cycle of fifths from the note C
up to C again, it’s out of tune.”
To attempt to solve the problem,
Kepler relied on the theories of
Vincenzo Galilei.
The elder Galilei, along with his
contemporaries, is also responsible *
for the idea of a single voice singing
over a pattern of chords, Gaskell
said. This method has trickled down
from opera to virtually all of rock
and popular music today, he said.
“There is a wonderful continuity
in music from the past to the
present,” he said. “They were try
ing to reinvent what the Greeks did
with music.”
Basing music on astronomical
principles still is used in some space
music today, Gaskell said, refer
ring to a new-age music style with
an unearthly, futuristic sound.
Gaskell used to think of pursu
ing a career in music, and still com
poses new pieces occasionally. He
now plays organ at Trinity Baptist
Church. But many astronomers, in
cluding two in his department, share
his love for playing renaissance
music.
“I think the interest has to do
with the way brain is put together,”
Gaskell said.
Gaskell said he attended a re
cent astronomer’s convention in
Ames, Iowa, which featured a per
formance of renaissance music on
classic instruments. At the end of
the performance, any volunteers
were offered a chance to perform
on the medieval instruments.
“About half the room got up to
play the instruments,” Gaskell said
proudly.
Voltaire
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furniture and paintings. Arab oil ty
coons and the Russian mafia have been
in the French headlines in recent years
for snapping up choice real estate,
particularly along the French Riviera.
“We’re going to hate ourselves if
we learn that the chateau has been
sold,” said Georges Vianes, the mayor
of Femey-Voltaire.
Voltaire, born Francois-Marie
Arouet in Paris in 1694, lived in the
stately chateau from 1758 until his
death in 1778. At the mansion, he
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“Candide,” as well as his landmark
treatise on tolerance.
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of“Candide,” which followed its hero’s
hapless journeys far from his home.
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comer of the world and being content
with it.
Since 1846, the Lambert family has
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Voltaire, about three miles from
Geneva. Two rooms of the mansion
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“Voltaire in Femey” fund-raising cam
paign to buy and preserve it.
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United States, and organizers say they
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