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      • Volume 2: Harmonic and Acoustic Theory
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      18 January 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511585753
      9780521616973
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511585753
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.893kg, 592 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music
      Subjects:
      Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music: General Interest
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    Series:
    Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music
    Subjects:
    Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music: General Interest
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    This second volume of Greek Musical Writings contains important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory, illustrating the progress of these sciences from their beginnings in the sixth century BC over the subsequent thousand years. Writers represented include Philolaus, Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Aristoxenus, Ptolemy, Aristides, Archytas, and Quintilianus. All the Greek texts are newly translated by the editor. Some replace inadequate existing translations; other significant portions of the book include much that is essential for an understanding of medieval and Renaissance musicology. Dr Barker provides detailed and authoritative commentary and annotations to all the texts. Each section is prefaced by an introductory essay and some of the more complex issues are discussed further in appendices.

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