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The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato

Author : Sean Alexander Gurd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350071994
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato written by Sean Alexander Gurd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening is a social process. Even apparently trivial acts of listening are expert performances of acquired cognitive and bodily habits. Contemporary scholars acknowledge this fact with the notion that there are “auditory cultures.” In the fourth century BCE, Greek philosophers recognized a similar phenomenon in music, which they treated as a privileged site for the cultural manufacture of sensory capabilities, and proof that in a traditional culture perception could be ordered, regular, and reliable. This approachable and elegantly written book tells the story of how music became a vital topic for understanding the senses and their role in the creation of knowledge. Focussing in particular on discussions of music and sensation in Plato and Aristoxenus, Sean Gurd explores a crucial early chapter in the history of hearing and gently raises critical questions about how aesthetic traditionalism and sensory certainty can be joined together in a mutually reinforcing symbiosis.

Apollo's Lyre

Author : Thomas J. Mathiesen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803230798
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Apollo's Lyre written by Thomas J. Mathiesen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek music and music theory has fascinated scholars for centuries not only because of its intrinsic interest as a part of ancient Greek culture but also because the Greeks? grand concept of music has continued to stimulate musical imaginations to the present day. Unlike earlier treatments of the subject, Apollo?s Lyre is aimedøprincipally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages. The basic method and scope of the study are set out in a preliminary chapter, followed by two chapters concentrating on the role of music in Greek society, musical typology, organology, and performance practice. The next chapters are devoted to the music theory itself, as it developed in three stages: in the treatises of Aristoxenus and the Sectio canonis; during the period of revival in the second century C.E.; and in late antiquity. Each theorist and treatise is considered separately but always within the context of the emerging traditions. The theory provides a remarkably complete and coherent system for explaining and analyzing musical phenomena, and a great deal of its conceptual framework, as well as much of its terminology, was borrowed and adapted by medieval Latin, Byzantine, and Arabic music theorists, a legacy reviewed in the final chapter. Transcriptions and analyses of some of the more complete pieces of Greek music preserved on papyrus or stone, or in manuscript, are integrated with a consideration of the musicopoetic types themselves. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography for the field, updating and expanding the author?s earlier Bibliography of Sources for the Study of Ancient Greek Music.

Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece

Author : Jill Gordon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253062837
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece written by Jill Gordon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hearing, Sound, and the Auditory in Ancient Greece represents the first comprehensive study of the role of sound and hearing in the ancient Greek world. While our modern western culture is almost an entirely visual one, hearing and sound were central to ancient Greeks. The fifteen chapters of this edited volume explore "hearing" as being philosophically significant across numerous texts and figures in ancient Greek philosophy. Through close analysis of the philosophy of such figures as Heraclitus, Sophocles, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle, Hearing, Sound, and Auditory in Ancient Greece presents new and unique research from philosophers and classicists that aims to redirect us to the ways in which sound, hearing, music, listening, voice, and even silence shaped and reflected the worldview of ancient Greece"--

The Plato Code

Author : Jay Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781471100017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plato Code written by Jay Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary biography and philosophical history which has blown wide open the way we have viewed Plato for the last 500 years

The Modes of Ancient Greek Music

Author : David Binning Monro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modes of Ancient Greek Music written by David Binning Monro and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophy of Music

Author : Riccardo Martinelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110627418
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophy of Music by : Riccardo Martinelli

Download or read book Philosophy of Music written by Riccardo Martinelli and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touches upon metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, psychology, anthropology, and scientific developments that have influenced the philosophical explanations of music. Starting from the very origins of philosophy in Western thought (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle) the book talks about what music is according to Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, the Romantics, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Susanne Langer, Bloch, Adorno, and many others. Recent developments within the analytic tradition are illustrated with particular attention to the ontology of the musical artwork and to the problem of music and emotions. A fascinating idea which recurs throughout the book is that philosophers allow for a sort of a secret kinship between music and philosophy, as means to reveal complementary aspects of truth.

Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism

Author : Ian Bent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521551021
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism written by Ian Bent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-08-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve brilliant historians of theory probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music.

The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics

Author : A. Szabó
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401732434
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Beginnings of Greek Mathematics written by A. Szabó and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book was first published, more than five years ago, I added an appendix on How the Pythagoreans discovered Proposition 11.5 of the 'Elements'. I hoped that this appendix, although different in some ways from the rest of the book, would serve to illustrate the kind of research which needs to be undertaken, if we are to acquire a new understanding of the historical development of Greek mathematics. It should perhaps be mentioned that this book is not intended to be an introduction to Greek mathematics for the general reader; its aim is to bring the problems associated with the early history of deductive science to the attention of classical scholars, and historians and philos ophers of science. I should like to conclude by thanking my translator, Mr. A. M. Ungar, who worked hard to produce something more than a mechanical translation. Much of his work was carried out during the year which I spent at Stanford as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. This enabled me to supervise the work of transla tion as it progressed. I am happy to express my gratitude to the Center for providing me with this opportunity. Arpad Szabo NOTE ON REFERENCES The following books are frequently referred to in the notes. Unless otherwise stated, the editions are those given below. Burkert, W. Weisheit und Wissensclzaft, Studien zu Pythagoras, Philo laos und Platon, Nuremberg 1962.

Plato on Music, Soul and Body

Author : Francesco Pelosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521760454
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Plato on Music, Soul and Body written by Francesco Pelosi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's reflection on the relationship between soul and body has attracted scholars' attention since antiquity. Less noted, but worth careful consideration, is Plato's thought on music and its effects on human beings. Discovering and emphasising the philosophical value of Plato's treatment of the musical phenomenon, this book analyses the soul-body problem from an innovative point of view. By investigating in detail how Plato conceives of the musical experience and its influence on intelligence, passions and perceptions, it brings to light the intersection of cognitive and emotional functions in Plato's philosophy of mind.

The Origins of Music

Author : Nils L. Wallin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731430
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Music written by Nils L. Wallin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-07-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling

Greek and Latin Music Theory

Author : Edward Nowacki
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580469957
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Latin Music Theory written by Edward Nowacki and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages.

Inside Arabic Music

Author : Johnny Farraj
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019065838X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Inside Arabic Music written by Johnny Farraj and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes hundreds of listeners cheer ecstatically at the same instant during a live concert by Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum? What is the unspoken language behind a taqsim (traditional instrumental improvisation) that performers and listeners implicitly know? How can Arabic music be so rich and diverse without resorting to harmony? Why is it so challenging to transcribe Arabic music from a recording? Inside Arabic Music answers these and many other questions from the perspective of two "insiders" to the practice of Arabic music, by documenting a performance culture and a know-how that is largely passed on orally. Arabic music has spread across the globe, influencing music from Greece all the way to India in the mid-20th century through radio and musical cinema, and global popular culture through Raqs Sharqi, known as "Bellydance" in the West. Yet despite its popularity and influence, Arabic music, and the maqam scale system at its heart, remain widely misunderstood. Inside Arabic Music de-mystifies maqam with an approach that draws theory directly from practice, and presents theoretical insights that will be useful to practitioners, from the beginner to the expert - as well as those interested in the related Persian, Central Asian, and Turkish makam traditions. Inside Arabic Music's discussion of maqam and improvisation widens general understanding of music as well, by bringing in ideas from Saussurean linguistics, network theory, and Lakoff and Johnson's theory of cognition as metaphor, with an approach parallel to Gjerdingen's analysis of Galant-period music - offering a lens into the deeper relationships among music, culture, and human community.

The Pythagorean Plato

Author : Ernest G. McClain
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pythagorean Plato written by Ernest G. McClain and published by Nicolas-Hays. This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato

Author : Julia Annas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402770524
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Plato written by Julia Annas and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Julia Annas provides an incisive exploration of the many-sided and elusive genius whose wide-ranging, bold, and influential ideas continue to challenge, provoke, and inspire us today"--Page 4 of cover.

Music, Modernity, and God

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191611816
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Music, Modernity, and God written by Jeremy Begbie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the story of modernity is told from a theological perspective, music is routinely ignored—despite its pervasiveness in modern culture and the manifold ways it has been intertwined with modernity's ambivalent relation to the Christian God. In conversation with musicologists and music theorists, this collection of essays shows that the practices of music and the discourses it has generated bear their own kind of witness to some of the pivotal theological currents and counter-currents shaping modernity. Music has been deeply affected by these currents and in some cases may have played a part in generating them. In addition, Jeremy Begbie argues that music is capable of yielding highly effective ways of addressing and moving beyond some of the more intractable theological problems and dilemmas which modernity has bequeathed to us. Music, Modernity, and God includes studies of Calvin, Luther, and Bach, an exposition of the intriguing tussle between Rousseau and the composer Rameau, and an account of the heady exaltation of music to be found in the early German Romantics. Particular attention is paid to the complex relations between music and language, and the ways in which theology, a discipline involving language at its heart, can come to terms with practices like music, practices which are coherent and meaningful but which in many respects do not operate in language-like ways.

The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues

Author : John Bernard Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781844652662
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)

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Download or read book The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues written by John Bernard Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar musical structure, dividing each dialogue into twelve parts and inserting symbols at each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are either harmonious or dissonant and traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale. Many of Plato's early followers insisted that Plato used symbols to conceal his own views within the dialogues, but modern scholars have denied this. Kennedy, an expert in Pythagorean mathematics and music theory, is able to show that Plato's dialogues contain a system of symbols that are undetectable by those without knowledge of obsolete Greek mathematics. The book begins with a concise and accessible introduction to Plato's symbolic schemes and the role of allegory in ancient times. The author then annotates the musical symbols in two of Plato's most popular dialogues, the Symposium and Euthyphro, and shows that Plato used the musical scale as an outline for structuring his narratives.

Musicologia

Author : Robin Maconie
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810876965
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Musicologia written by Robin Maconie and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Musicologia--meaning "musical reasoning" as distinct from a mere love of music--author and composer Robin Maconie takes aim against the fashionable misconception that music is empty of meaning, or "auditory cheesecake." Fresh and penetrating insights draw attention to the influence of musical analogy in the history of science and philosophy from ancient Greece to modern times. Since music has always existed, it is an expression of human consciousness. The discoveries of Pythagoras, Zeno, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein would not have been possible without a tradition of musical acoustics. The story of Musicologia unfolds in thirty-one chapters from primordial considerations of silence, communication, selfhood, balance, and motion to focus on more recent and specific issues of chaos, order, relativity, and artificial intelligence, showing that even the most controversial aspects of modern art music form part of a wider endeavor to engage with universal propositions of science and philosophy.