Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece

Klappentext This 2007 book examines the ancient science of harmonics! the most important branch of Greek musical theory. Zusammenfassung Harmonics was the most important branch of Greek musical theory! and its ideas were still vigorously debated in the Renaissance. This 2007 book! written by a leading specialist on ancient music! concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Preliminaries: Introduction; 1. Beginnings, and the problem of measurement; Part II. Empirical Harmonics: 2. Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus; 3. The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts; 4. Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods; 5. Aristoxenus: the composition of the Elementa harmonica; 6. Aristoxenus: concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica Book 1; 7. Elementa harmonica Books 2-3: the science reconsidered; 8. Elementa harmonica Book 3 and its missing sequel; 9. Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics; Part III. Mathematical Harmonics: 10. Pythagorean harmonics in the fifth century: Philolaus; 11. Developments in Pythagorean harmonics: Archytas; 12. Plato; 13. Aristotle on the harmonic sciences; 14. Systematising mathematical harmonics: the Sectio canonis; 15. Quantification under attack: Theophrastus' critique; Postscript: The later centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Barker, Andrew (University of Birmingham) Barker, Barker Andrew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521289955
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28995-5
• No. of pages: 494
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Theory of music & musicology, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Theory of music and musicology