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Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology (Studies in Classics)

Name: Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology (Studies in Classics)
Author: Sophie Gibson
ISBN: 9780415970617

Sophie Gibson

274 pages

Routledge

Jan 2005

1st Edition

Arts & Photography WSBN

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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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