The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science

ISBN-13: 9780521843249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 426 str.

David Creese

Opis

Traces the history of the monochord from its earliest appearance to Claudius Ptolemy (mid-second century AD).

Recenzje

All this is not to detract from the fact that David Creese has filled an important gap in the studies of ancient Greek music in a masterful way, in a book that enriches the libraries of everybody interested in this particular field of study, philologist or music historian, as well as in the development of scientific though in general."
-- Stefan Hagel, Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: The geometry of sound; 1. Hearing numbers, seeing sounds: the role of instruments and diagrams in Greek harmonic science; 2. Mathematical harmonics before the monochord; 3. The monochord in context; 4. Eratosthenes; 5. Canonic theory; 6. Ptolemy's canonics; Bibliography; Index.