Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music
ISBN-13:
9781107459878
ISBN-10:
1107459877
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Flora R. Levin
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
366 pages
Category:
History & Criticism
,
Music
,
European History
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ISBN-13:
9781107459878
ISBN-10:
1107459877
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Flora R. Levin
Publication date:
2014
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
366 pages
Category:
History & Criticism
,
Music
,
European History
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Greek Reflections on the Nature of Music (ISBN-13: 9781107459878 and ISBN-10: 1107459877), written by authors
Flora R. Levin, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2014.
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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.
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