UID:
almahu_9947415104402882
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 340 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511581519 (ebook)
Content:
Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. She examines the distinctions that they drew between the theory of music as an art ruled by number and the theory wherein number is held to be ruled by the art of music. These perspectives generated more expansive theories, particularly the idea that the cosmos is a mirror-image of music's structural elements and, conversely, that music by virtue of its cosmic elements - time, motion, and the continuum - is itself a mirror-image of the cosmos. These opposing perspectives gave rise to two opposing schools of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilisation has ever matched.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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All deep things are song -- We are all Aristoxenians -- The discrete and the continuous -- Magnitudes and multitudes -- The topology of melody -- Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Ptolemaïs of Cyrene -- Aisthēsis and Logos : a single continent -- The infinite and the infinitesimal.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521518901
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
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Ancient Studies
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581519
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
