The Manual Of Harmonics Of Nicomachus The Pythagorean
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Author |
: Nicomachus (of Gerasa.) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105008692514 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean by : Nicomachus (of Gerasa.)
Author |
: Nicomachus (of Gerasa.) |
Publisher |
: Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1994-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0933999437 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780933999435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean by : Nicomachus (of Gerasa.)
In ancient Greek thought, the musical scale discovered by the philosopher Pythagoras was seen as a utopian model of the harmonic order behind the structure of the cosmos and human existence. Through proportion and harmony, the musical scale bridges the gap between two extremes. It encapsulates the most fundamental pattern of harmonic symmetry and demonstrates how the phenomena of nature are inseparably related to one another through the principle of reciprocity. Because of these relationships embodied in its structure, the musical scale was seen as an ideal metaphor of human society by Plato and other Pythagorean thinkers, for it is based on the cosmic principles of harmony, reciprocity, and proportion, whereby each part of the whole receives its just and proper share. This book is the first ever complete translation of The Manual of Harmonics by the Pythagorean philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa (second century A.D.) published with a comprehensive, chapter-by-chapter commentary. It is a concise and well-organized introduction to the study of harmonics, the universal principles of relation embodied in the musical scale. Also included is a remarkable chapter-by-chapter commentary by the translator, Flora Levin, which makes this work easily accessible to the reader today. Dr. Levin explains the principles of Pythagorean harmony, provides extensive background information, and helps to situate Nicomachus' thought in the history of ideas. This important work constitutes a valuable resource for all students of ancient philosophy, Western cosmology, and the history of music.
Author |
: Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
Release |
: 2018-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501727313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501727311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Measuring Heaven by : Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied systematically. This book is the first to examine the unified concepts of harmony, proportion, form, and order that were attributed to Pythagoras in the millennium after his death and the important developments to which they led in art, architecture, mathematics, astronomy, music, medicine, morals, religion, law, alchemy, and the occult sciences. In this profusely illustrated book, Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier sets out the panorama of Pythagoras's influence and that of Christian and Jewish thinkers who followed his ideas in the Greek, Roman, early Christian, and medieval worlds. In illuminating this tradition of thought, Joost-Gaugier shows how the influence of Pythagoreanism was far broader than is usually realized, and that it affected the development of ancient and medieval art and architecture from Greek and Roman temples to Gothic cathedrals.Joost-Gaugier demonstrates that Pythagoreanism—centered on the dim memory of a single person that endured for centuries and grew ever-greater—inspired a new language for artists and architects, enabling them to be "modern."
Author |
: Thomas Taylor |
Publisher |
: Health Research Books |
Total Pages |
: 314 |
Release |
: 2006-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0787314064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780787314064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theoretic Arithmetic of the Pythagoreans by : Thomas Taylor
Author |
: Nicomachus (of Gerasa.) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005675411 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Introduction to Arithmetic by : Nicomachus (of Gerasa.)
Author |
: Flora R. Levin |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 113 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:963368811 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean Tradition by : Flora R. Levin
Author |
: Arthur H. Benade |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2014-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486173597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486173593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Horns, Strings, and Harmony by : Arthur H. Benade
Engaging, accessible introduction to structure and sound-making capacities of piano, violin, trumpet, bugle, oboe, flute, saxophone, many other instruments. Also, how to build your own trumpet, flute, clarinet. Includes 76 illustrations. Bibliography.
Author |
: John Hawkins |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 540 |
Release |
: 1868 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433082168299 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis A General History of the Science and Practice of Music by : John Hawkins
Author |
: Iamblichus |
Publisher |
: Red Wheel/Weiser |
Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 1988-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0933999720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780933999725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Theology of Arithmetic by : Iamblichus
Attributed to Iamblichus (4th cent. AD), The Theology of Arithmetic is about the mystical, mathmatical and cosmological symbolism of the first ten numbers. Its is the longest work on number symbolism to survive from the ancient world, and Robin Waterfield's careful translation contains helpful footnotes, an extensive glossary, bibliography, and foreword by Keith Critchlow. Never before translated from ancient Greek, this important sourcework is indispensable for anyone intereted in Pythagorean though, Neoplatonism, or the symbolism of Numbers.
Author |
: Thomas J. Mathiesen |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 832 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803230796 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803230798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Apollo's Lyre by : Thomas J. Mathiesen
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.