Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of MusicologyRoutledge, 8 apr 2014 - 274 pagine Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathematical significance of musical structures and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated from Aristotle. This volume studies the theories of Aristoxenus. |
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Introduction
| 1 |
Chapter One Harmonic Theory Before Aristoxenus | 7 |
Chapter Two The Influence of Aristotleon Aristoxenus Harmonic Science | 23 |
Chapter Three The Harmonics
| 39 |
Chapter Four The Rhythmics | 77 |
Chapter Five Not the Harmonics
| 99 |
Chapter Six Musical Theory after Aristoxenus
| 129 |
Conclusion | 169 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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