Greek and Latin music theory: principles and challenges

A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages

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1. Verfasser: Nowacki, Edward 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Rochester University of Rochester Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Eastman studies in music
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Zusammenfassung:A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages
Beschreibung:Part I. The Ancient Greek Tradition in Practice and Theory. The Ancient Harmoniai ; The Tonoi ; Alypian Notation -- Part II. Mathematical Foundations. Pythagorean Harmonic Ratios from the Octave to the Comma by Continuous Subtraction ; Boethius's Error in the De institutione musica 4.6 ; Aristoxenus's Proof That the Perfect Fourth Is the Sum of Two Tones and a Semitone ; Aristoxenus's Anticipation of the Logarithmic Logic of Musical Cognition ; The Three Mathematical Means in the Theories of Euclid, Boethius, Glarean, and Zarlino ; Guido and the Monochord -- Part III. Emerging Theories of the Ecclesiastical Modes. Transposition and the Doctrine of Modal Affinity ; The Misunderstood Confinalis ; Reading the First Quidam of the Alia musica ; The Prologus in tonarium of Bern of Reichenau : A Translation ; Reading Hermannus ; Idealist and Empirical Perspectives in Theories of the Ecclesiastical Modes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 225 Seiten)
ISBN:9781787449169
DOI:10.1017/9781787449169

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