TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barker,Andrew
TI  - The science of harmonics in classical Greece
SN  - 9780511482465
AV  - ML3805 .B27 2007
U1  - 781.2/30938 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Music
KW  - Acoustics and physics
KW  - Musical intervals and scales
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - To 500
KW  - Music theory
KW  - Musique
KW  - Acoustique et physique
KW  - Théorie musicale
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Jusqu'à 500
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Instruction & Study
KW  - Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Harmonielehre
KW  - gnd
KW  - Harmonieleer
KW  - gtt
KW  - Griekse oudheid
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Altertum
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-460) and index; pt. I. Preliminaries. Introduction -- Beginnings, and the problem of measurement -- pt. II. Empirical harmonics. Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus -- The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts -- Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods -- Aristoxenus : the composition of the Elementa harmonica -- Aristoxenus : concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book I -- Elementa harmonica books II-III : the science reconsidered -- Elementa harmonica book III and its missing sequel -- Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics -- pt. III. Mathematical harmonics. Pythagorean harmonics in the fifth century : Philolaus -- Developments in Pythagorean harmonics : Archytas -- Plato -- Aristotle on the harmonic sciences -- Systematising mathematical harmonics : the Sectio canonis -- Quantification under attack : Theophrastus' critique -- Postscript : the later centuries
N2  - The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. It also seeks to locate the discipline within the broader cultural environment of the period; and it investigates, sometimes with surprising results, the ways in which the theorists' work draws on and in some cases influences that of philosophers and other intellectuals
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