Greek reflections on the nature of music /

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. These perspectives generated more expansive theorie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levin, Flora R., 1924-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
To 500
Music, Greek and Roman > History and criticism.
Music theory > Greece > History > To 500.
Music > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Théorie musicale > Grèce > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500.
Musique > Philosophie et esthétique.
MUSIC > History & Criticism.
Music, Greek and Roman.
Music theory.
Musiktheorie
Greece.
Griechenland > Altertum
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • All deep things are song
  • We are all Aristoxenians
  • The discrete and the continuous
  • Magnitudes and multitudes
  • The topology of melody
  • Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Ptolemaïs of Cyrene
  • Aisthēsis and Logos : a single continent
  • The infinite and the infinitesimal.

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