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Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
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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 of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilisation has ever matched.
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Cambridge University Press; April 2009
336 pages; ISBN 9780511537080
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336 pages; ISBN 9780511537080
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Subject categories
- Academic > Performing Arts > Literature on music > History and criticism > By period
- Academic > Performing Arts > Literature on music > History and criticism > Instruments and instrumental music
- Music > Instruction & Study
- Music > History & Criticism
- History > Asia
- History > Ancient
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- History > World
ISBNs
0511537085
9780511537080
9780511652677
9780521518901