In this book, 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...

In this book, 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...