Porphyry''s Commentary on Ptolemy''s Harmonics - A Greek Text and Annotated Translation

Porphyry's multifaceted Commentary is of major philosophical and musicological importance. This is the first ever annotated English translation.

List of contents

Introduction; Text and translation: Book I; Book II.

About the author

Andrew Barker is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham. He has been researching in the field of ancient Greek music and musical theory since the 1970s, and has published six books (including The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and a great many articles on these topics. He is the Founding President of the International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music (Moisa), and Editor of the journal Greek and Roman Musical Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Barker
• Assisted by: Andrew Barker (Editor and translation), Barker Andrew (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107003859
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00385-9
• No. of pages: 590
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Theory of music & musicology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Theory of music and musicology