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Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music - Couverture souple

Levin, Flora R.

 
9781107459878: Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1107459877 ISBN 13 : 9781107459878
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107459877
ISBN 13 
9781107459878
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
366
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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