as could be seen in the design of the night sky.
The 'how' was a style called polyphony,
music of many independently moving voices
that suggested the way the planets seemed to move
in Ptolemy's geocentric universe.
This was truly the music of the spheres.
(Music)
This is the kind of music that Leonardo DaVinci would have known.
And perhaps its tremendous intellectual perfection and serenity
meant that something new had to happen --
a radical new move, which in 1600 is what did happen.
(Music) Singer: Ah, bitter blow!
Ah, wicked, cruel fate!
Ah, baleful stars!
Ah, avaricious heaven!
MTT: This, of course, was the birth of opera,
and its development put music on a radical new course.
The what now was not to mirror the mind of God,
but to follow the emotion turbulence of man.
And the how was harmony,
stacking up the pitches to form chords.