TY - BOOK ID - 20060422 TI - The science of harmonics in classical Greece PY - 2011 SN - 9780521289955 9780521879514 0521879515 9780511482465 0511482469 9780511367724 0511367724 1107183863 1281146366 9786611146368 1139133284 0511367139 0511366507 051136587X 0521289955 9781107183865 9781281146366 6611146369 9781139133289 9780511367137 9780511366505 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 780.901 KW - Arts Music Ancient times to 450 A.D. KW - Music KW - Musical intervals and scales KW - Music theory KW - Musique KW - TheĢorie musicale KW - Acoustics and physics. KW - History KW - Acoustique et physique KW - Intervalles et gammes KW - Histoire KW - 78.22 KW - 78.63 KW - Musical theory KW - Theory of music KW - Intervals (Music) KW - Modes, Musical KW - Musical modes KW - Musical scales and intervals KW - Scales (Music) KW - Musical temperament KW - Musical acoustics KW - Physics KW - Sound KW - Monochord KW - Theory KW - Modes KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:20060422 AB - The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists. This 2007 book examines its development during the period when its central ideas and rival schools of thought were established, laying the foundations for the speculations of later antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It concentrates particularly on the theorists' methods and purposes and the controversies that their various approaches to the subject provoked. It also seeks to locate the discipline within the broader cultural environment of the period; and it investigates, sometimes with surprising results, the ways in which the theorists' work draws on and in some cases influences that of philosophers and other intellectuals. ER -