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Informationen zum Autor EDWARD NOWACKI is Professor Emeritus of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. Klappentext A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages. Zusammenfassung A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: The Ancient Greek Tradition in Practice and TheoryThe Ancient HarmoniaiThe TonoiAlypian NotationPart II: Mathematical FoundationsPythagorean Harmonic Ratios from the Octave to the Comma by Continuous SubtractionBoethius's Error in the De institutione musica 4.6Aristoxenus's Proof That the Perfect Fourth Is the Sum of Two Tones and a SemitoneAristoxenus's Anticipation of the Logarithmic Logic of Musical CognitionThe Three Mathematical Means in the Theories of Euclid, Boethius, Glarean, and ZarlinoGuido and the MonochordPart III: Emerging Theories of the Ecclesiastical ModesTransposition and the Doctrine of Modal AffinityThe Misunderstood Confinalis Reading the First Quidam of the Alia musica The Prologus in tonarium of Bern of Reichenau: A TranslationReading HermannusIdealist and Empirical Perspectives in Theories of the Ecclesiastical ModesGlossary of TermsNotesBibliographyIndex
