Nowacki Greek and Latin Music Theory

Principles and Challenges
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-916-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 171, 236 Seiten

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

A long-needed overview of, and guide to, the principles behind the treatises on music theory written in ancient Greece and Rome and continuing through the Middle Ages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nowacki, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Weltmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: The Ancient Greek Tradition in Practice and Theory
The Ancient Harmoniai
The Tonoi
Alypian Notation
Part II: Mathematical Foundations
Pythagorean Harmonic Ratios from the Octave to the Comma by Continuous Subtraction
Boethius's Error in the De institutione musica 4.6
Aristoxenus's Proof That the Perfect Fourth Is the Sum of Two Tones and a Semitone
Aristoxenus's Anticipation of the Logarithmic Logic of Musical Cognition
The Three Mathematical Means in the Theories of Euclid, Boethius, Glarean, and Zarlino
Guido and the Monochord
Part III: Emerging Theories of the Ecclesiastical Modes
Transposition and the Doctrine of Modal Affinity
The Misunderstood Confinalis
Reading the First Quidam of the Alia musica
The Prologus in tonarium of Bern of Reichenau: A Translation
Reading Hermannus
Idealist and Empirical Perspectives in Theories of the Ecclesiastical Modes
Glossary of Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nowacki Edward:
EDWARD NOWACKI is Professor Emeritus of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati.