The science of harmonics in classical Greece

The science of harmonics in classical Greece / Andrew Barker.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barker, Andrew, 1943-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Subjects:	Music > Acoustics and physics. Musical intervals and scales > Greece > History > To 500. Music theory > Greece > History > To 500.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Beginnings, and the problem of measurement
Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus
The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts
Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods
Aristoxenus--the composition of the Elementa harmonica
Aristoxenus--concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book 1
Elementa harmonica books 2-3
Elementa harmonica book 3 and its missing sequel
Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics
Pythagorean harmonics in the Fifth Century
Developments in Pythagorean harmonics
Plato
Aristotle on the harmonic sciences
Systematising mathematical harmonics
Quantification under attack
Postscript--the later centuries.