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Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
Flora R. Levin
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hardcover. Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. Num Pages: 364 pages, 10 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Illustrated cloth covers, no dj as issued, remains very good
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521518901
SKU
KSG0034562
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99-1
About Flora R. Levin
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.
Reviews for Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
'This volume offers provocative interpretations of Aristoxenian music theory while providing a context in modern mathematics, philosophy, and musicology for the Aristoxenian and other schools of ancient music theory.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review