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This collection presents three entire treaties, as well as excerpted writings on music by Plato, Aristotle, and others. Included is the first English translation of Gaudentius's complete Harmonic Introduction, prepared by the volume's editor, Thomas J. Mathieson, who also revised the other translations in light of recent scholarship. These selections not only illuminate Greek thinking about music, they also help us understand ideas about music set forth by medieval and Renaissance writers and theorists.

Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: Greek Views of Music

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This collection presents three entire treaties, as well as excerpted writings on music by Plato, Aristotle, and others. Included is... Read more

    Publisher: WW Norton & Co
    Publication Date: 14/01/1998
    ISBN13: 9780393966947, 978-0393966947
    ISBN10: 0393966941

    Number of Pages: 128

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    This collection presents three entire treaties, as well as excerpted writings on music by Plato, Aristotle, and others. Included is the first English translation of Gaudentius's complete Harmonic Introduction, prepared by the volume's editor, Thomas J. Mathieson, who also revised the other translations in light of recent scholarship. These selections not only illuminate Greek thinking about music, they also help us understand ideas about music set forth by medieval and Renaissance writers and theorists.

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