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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780511482465
Content:
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. It also seeks to locate the discipline within the broader cultural environment of the period; and it investigates, sometimes with surprising results, the ways in which the theorists' work draws on and in some cases influences that of philosophers and other intellectuals
Content:
Beginnings, and the problem of measurement -- Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus -- The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts -- Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods -- Aristoxenus--the composition of the Elementa harmonica -- Aristoxenus--concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book 1 -- Elementa harmonica books 2-3 -- Elementa harmonica book 3 and its missing sequel -- Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics -- Pythagorean harmonics in the Fifth Century -- Developments in Pythagorean harmonics -- Plato -- Aristotle on the harmonic sciences -- Systematising mathematical harmonics -- Quantification under attack -- Postscript--the later centuries
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521879514
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521289955
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Barker, Andrew, 1943 - 2021 The science of harmonics in Classical Greece Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN 0521879515
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521289955
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521879514
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521879514
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
Keywords:
Griechenland
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Harmonielehre
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482465
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