Apollos Lyre: Greek Music And Music Theory In Antiquity And The Middle Ages; Author: Mathiesen, Thomas J.; Hardback; Book

Author: Mathiesen, Thomas J.
Series#:2; Publications of the Center for the History of Music Theory a; Hardback; Book; 106 Illustrations, Bibliography
807 pages
Published: April 2000
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803230796

This study is aimed principally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages. Mathiesen (professor of music and director of the Center for the History of Music, Indiana U.) starts by setting forth the basic method and scope of the study, and follows with chapters devoted to the music theory itself as it developed during the treatises of Aristoxenus and the Sectio canonis, the period of revival in the second century C.E., and in late antiquity. Transcriptions andanalyses of some of the more complete pieces of Greek music, preserved on papyrus, stone, or in manuscript, are integrated with a consideration of the musicopoetic types themselves.Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.Ancient Greek music and music theory has fascinated scholars for centuries. This volume is aimed principally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, the musical instruments and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages.