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Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology (Studies in Classics)
Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology - Studies in Classics Author:Sophie Gibson Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathematical significance of musical structures and instead applied a scientific methodology appropriated from Aristotle. This volume studies the theories... more » of Aristoxenus.« less