La Scienza Armonica nell’universo architettonico di Bernardo Antonio Vittone (1705-1770)

Abstract

Piedmontese architetct Bernardo Antonio Vittone, in the two publications he edited (Istruzioni Elementari !760; Istruzioni Diverse 1766), makes many references to the importance of the relationship between music and architecture. In particular the Istruzioni Diverse contains a concluding “Addition” signed by architect and collaborator Giovanni Battista Galletto with a strictly musical theme that has genereted quite a few misunderstandings. This paper proposes an interpretation of why musical insertions in manual intended for young people in training who wish to practice architetcture.