Ancient Greek Music
Subtitle: a New Technical History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780511688638
Description: Offers a fundamental reworking of the history of the development of Greek music from the classical period to Roman times.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Diagrams; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The evolution of ancient Greek musical notation; CHAPTER 2 Notation, instruments and the voice; CHAPTER 3 Notation in the handbooks; CHAPTER 4 Strings and notes; CHAPTER 5 Fine-tuning; CHAPTER 6 Going beyond Ptolemy?; CHAPTER 7 Assisted resonance; CHAPTER 8 The extant musical documents; CHAPTER 9 Aulos types and pitches; CHAPTER 10 Before Aristoxenus; CHAPTER 11 Synthesis; Bibliography; Indices.