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Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics - A Greek Text and Annotated Translation (Hardcover)
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Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics - A Greek Text and Annotated Translation (Hardcover)
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Porphyry's Commentary, the only surviving ancient commentary on a
technical text, is not merely a study of Ptolemy's Harmonics. It
includes virtually free-standing philosophical essays on
epistemology, metaphysics, scientific methodology, aspects of the
Aristotelian categories and the relations between Aristotle's views
and Plato's, and a host of briefer comments on other matters of
wide philosophical interest. For musicologists it is widely
recognised as a treasury of quotations from earlier treatises, many
of them otherwise unknown; but Porphyry's own reflections on
musical concepts (for instance notes, intervals and their relation
to ratios, quantitative and qualitative conceptions of pitch, the
continuous and discontinuous forms of vocal movement, and so on)
and his snapshots of contemporary music-making have been
undeservedly neglected. This volume presents the first English
translation and a revised Greek text of the Commentary, with an
introduction and notes designed to assist readers in engaging with
this important and intricate work.
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