HarmonicsBrill, 2000 - 192 էջ Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's Harmonics. The treatise begins with Ptolemy's study of pitches and intervals, for which he extracts both an idealized musical scale and a new acoustical tool. After discussing modulation, he expands his horizons by applying musical intervals to the human soul and celestial bodies, ultimately describing a cosmic harmony. The English translation faithfully reproduces Ptolemy's style and includes all the charts surviving in the manuscript tradition. The commentary offers a full exegesis of the text, loci paralleli, and citations of modern scholarly sources. |
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... refer to the farther extreme , which has the same function as the nearer . 106 The nearer position refers to that locus which is at the ' bottom ' of the diapason , and so when sung in a diapason plus diatessaron ( or diapente ) , the ...
... refer to the farther extreme , which has the same function as the nearer . 106 The nearer position refers to that locus which is at the ' bottom ' of the diapason , and so when sung in a diapason plus diatessaron ( or diapente ) , the ...
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... refers to " people , " ie . musicians . He thinks " the same ones " then refers to ' always on the same chords ' ( sc . xopdŵv ) . I find the ( Greek ) word order of Alexanderson's version very strained , but I also find Düring's ...
... refers to " people , " ie . musicians . He thinks " the same ones " then refers to ' always on the same chords ' ( sc . xopdŵv ) . I find the ( Greek ) word order of Alexanderson's version very strained , but I also find Düring's ...
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... refer to a bending of the string . At 67.13 έπιOUρóντwv ( episuronton ) refers to slurring notes . 213 Ptolemy refers to broader , non - composite intervals , e.g. those that begin the Seikilos inscription and Mesomedes ' Hymn to the ...
... refer to a bending of the string . At 67.13 έπιOUρóντwv ( episuronton ) refers to slurring notes . 213 Ptolemy refers to broader , non - composite intervals , e.g. those that begin the Seikilos inscription and Mesomedes ' Hymn to the ...
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