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Ancient Greek music : a new technical history /
This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010, ©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 484 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-471) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511690860 051169086X 051169198X 9780511691980 0521517648 9780521517645 9780511691591 0511691599 1107191416 9781107191419 1139248669 9781139248662 1316610896 9781316610893 1282636979 9781282636972 9786612636974 6612636971 0511689381 9780511689383 0511690126 9780511690129 0511688636 9780511688638 |