Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music by Levin, Flora R.

Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107459878)

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Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music by Levin, Flora R.

Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music

$50.00
Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music by Levin, Flora R.

Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music

$50.00
Format: Paperback
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In this book, Flora Levin explores how and why music was so important to the ancient Greeks. She examines the distinctions that they drew between the theory of music as an art ruled by number and the theory wherein number is held to be ruled by the art of music. These perspectives generated more expansive theories, particularly the idea that the cosmos is a mirror-image of music's structural elements and, conversely, that music by virtue of its cosmic elements - time, motion, and the continuum - is itself a mirror-image of the cosmos. These opposing perspectives gave rise to two opposing schools of thought, the Pythagorean and the Aristoxenian. Levin argues that the clash between these two schools could never be reconciled because the inherent conflict arises from two different worlds of mathematics. Her book shows how the Greeks' appreciation of the profundity of music's interconnections with philosophy, mathematics, and logic led to groundbreaking intellectual achievements that no civilization has ever matched.

Author: Flora R. Levin
ISBN-10: 1107459877
ISBN-13: 9781107459878
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2014
Pages: 366
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d

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