Musical thought in ancient Greece / Edward A. Lippman.

Author/creator Lippman, Edward A.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©1964.
Descriptionxiii, 215 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Music, Greek and Roman--History and criticism.

Contents Conceptions of harmony -- Theories of musical ethics -- The philosophy and aesthetics of music -- The peripatetics.
Abstract This book is a study of Greek philosophical speculations about music--early ideas on harmony and its relationship to cosmogony, theories of music and ethics, the aesthetics and philosophy of music, and significant modifcations of harmonic concepts developed by the Peripatetics. The contributions of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are, of course, given careful attention, but the ideas of many others are also presented, including those of the Presocratics, Damon, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus, and Euclid. The author does not confine himself to music in the special sense of works of art, nor as an autonomous sphere of culture; rather he shows the important and central place held by music in all ancient Greek life. The character of Greek music and its use in ritual, ceremony, and education is described. He has consulted a wide variety of source material: metaphysical, scientific, ethical, educational, and political works; treatises on music, mathematics, cosmology, poetics, and rhetoric; and finally conceptions of music implied by musical practice itself--to provide the reader with a clearly marked out and coherent account of the nature and concept of music in ancient Greece. This book will be of interest to musicologists and to readers concerned with the history of music and philosophy.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 177-199) and index.
LCCN 64022482

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