Flora R. Levin

Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 746g
• ISBN-13: 9780521518901
• ISBN-10: 0521518903
• Artikelnr.: 26221651

Autorenporträt

Flora Levin is an independent scholar of the classical world. She is the author of two monographs on Nicomachus of Gerasa and has contributed to TAPA, Hermes and The New Grove Dictionary of Music.

Inhaltsangabe

1. All deep things are song
2. We are all Aristoxenians
3. The discrete and the continuous
4. Magnitudes and multitudes
5. The topology of melody
6. Aristoxenus of Tarentum and Ptolemaïs of Cyrene
7. Aisth¿sis and Logos: a single continent
8. The infinite and the infinitesimal.