Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music

Flora R. Levin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

366 Seiten

2014
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-45987-8 (ISBN)

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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 theories, particularly the idea that the cosmos is a mirror-image of music's structural elements and, conversely, that music by virtue of its cosmic elements - time, motion, and the continuum - is itself a mirror-image of the cosmos. These opposing perspectives gave rise to two opposing schools of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilisation has ever matched.

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.

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. Aisthēsis and Logos: a single continent; 8. The infinite and the infinitesimal.

Zusatzinfo	10 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 230 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-107-45987-7 / 1107459877
ISBN-13	978-1-107-45987-8 / 9781107459878
Zustand	Neuware