Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 581 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511585753
Series Statement:
Cambridge readings in the literature of music
Content:
This second volume of Greek Musical Writings contains important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory, illustrating the progress of these sciences from their beginnings in the sixth century BC over the subsequent thousand years. Writers represented include Philolaus, Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Aristoxenus, Ptolemy, Aristides, Archytas, and Quintilianus. All the Greek texts are newly translated by the editor. Some replace inadequate existing translations; other significant portions of the book include much that is essential for an understanding of medieval and Renaissance musicology. Dr Barker provides detailed and authoritative commentary and annotations to all the texts. Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay and some of the more complex issues are discussed further in appendices
Content:
Introduction -- Pythagoras and early Pythagoreanism ; Appendix : The scalar division of Archytas -- Plato -- Aristotle -- The Aristotelian Problemata -- The Peripatetic De Audibilibus -- Theophrastus -- Aristoxenus. Elementa Harmonica ; Appendix : Aristoxenus' Elementa Rhythmica Book II -- The Euclidean Sectio Canonis -- Minor authors quoted by Theon and Porphyry. Passages from Theon of Smyrna ; Passages from Porphyry -- Nicomachus : Enchiridion -- Ptolemy : Harmonics -- Aristides Quintilianus : De Musica -- Bibliography of works by modern authors
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521302203
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521616973
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521302203
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511585753
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