Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music

Informationen zum Autor Flora Levin is an independent scholar of the classical world. She is the author of two monographs on Nicomachus of Gerasa and has contributed to TAPA, Hermes and The New Grove Dictionary of Music. Klappentext Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. All deep things are song; 2. We are all Aristoxenians; 3. The discrete and the continuous; 4. Magnitudes and multitudes; 5. The topology of melody; 6. Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Ptolemaïs of Cyrene; 7. Aisth¿sis and Logos: a single continent; 8. The infinite and the infinitesimal.

Product details

• Authors: Flora R. Levin, Levin Flora R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107459878
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45987-8
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; 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