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Accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.



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Part I: The Idea of Music in Ancient Europe From Apollo to Damon Plato Aristotle Post-Aristotelian Theory: The Peripatetics The Hellenistic Dispersal of Greek Musical Theory: Epicureans and Stoics The Hellenistic Dispersal: Various Theorists Hebraism and Hellenism Aristides Quintilianus The Fruits of Hellenism: Plotinus and Neoplatonism The Decline of Hellenism Part II: The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages The Fathers of the Church St. Augustine Latin Textbook Pioneers The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Age The Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries The Philosophers of the High Middle Ages Music Theories and Theorists of the High Middle Ages

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      Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/1988
      ISBN13: 9780918720870, 978-0918720870
      ISBN10: 918720877

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Accessible to scholars whose specialties lie outside of technical music theory, keeping in mind especially the aesthetician but also general medieval scholars, and even the general reader.



      Table of Contents

      Part I: The Idea of Music in Ancient Europe From Apollo to Damon Plato Aristotle Post-Aristotelian Theory: The Peripatetics The Hellenistic Dispersal of Greek Musical Theory: Epicureans and Stoics The Hellenistic Dispersal: Various Theorists Hebraism and Hellenism Aristides Quintilianus The Fruits of Hellenism: Plotinus and Neoplatonism The Decline of Hellenism Part II: The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages The Fathers of the Church St. Augustine Latin Textbook Pioneers The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Age The Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries The Philosophers of the High Middle Ages Music Theories and Theorists of the High Middle Ages

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