Description: Porphyry's Commentary, the only surviving ancient commentary on a technical text, is not merely a study of Ptolemy's Harmonics. It includes virtually free-standing philosophical essays on epistemology, metaphysics, scientific methodology, aspects of the Aristotelian categories and the relations between Aristotle's views and Plato's, and a host of briefer comments on other matters of wide philosophical interest. For musicologists it is widely recognised as a treasury of quotations from earlier treatises, many of them otherwise unknown; but Porphyry's own reflections on musical concepts (for instance notes, intervals and their relation to ratios, quantitative and qualitative conceptions of pitch, the continuous and discontinuous forms of vocal movement, and so on) and his snapshots of contemporary music-making have been undeservedly neglected. This volume presents the first English translation and a revised Greek text of the Commentary, with an introduction and notes designed to assist readers in engaging with this important and intricate work.
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EAN: 9781009490863
UPC: 9781009490863
ISBN: 9781009490863
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Format: Paperback, 589 pages
Author: Andrew Barker (Edited and translated by)
Book Title: Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics by An
Item Height: 3 cm
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Item Weight: 0.78 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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