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portada Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2014
Language
English
Pages
590
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781107003859
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Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation

Andrew Barker (Author) · Cambridge University Press · Hardcover

Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation - Andrew Barker

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Synopsis "Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics: A Greek Text and Annotated Translation "

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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