The science of harmonics in classical Greece [electronic resource] / Andrew Barker.
By: Barker, Andrew.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007Description: xii, 481 p. : ill.Subject(s): Music -- Acoustics and physics | Musical intervals and scales -- Greece -- History -- To 500 | Music theory -- Greece -- History -- To 500Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 781.2/30938 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-460) and index.
Beginnings, and the problem of measurement -- Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus -- The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts -- Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods -- Aristoxenus--the composition of the Elementa harmonica -- Aristoxenus--concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book 1 -- Elementa harmonica books 2-3 -- Elementa harmonica book 3 and its missing sequel -- Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics -- Pythagorean harmonics in the Fifth Century -- Developments in Pythagorean harmonics -- Plato -- Aristotle on the harmonic sciences -- Systematising mathematical harmonics -- Quantification under attack -- Postscript--the later centuries.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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