Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics
- Editor and Translator: Andrew Barker, University of Birmingham
- Date Published: February 2024
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009490863
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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.
Read more- The first translation into English of a text of great importance to students of both ancient musicology and ancient philosophy
- Offers an improved version of the standard edition of the Greek text, with a revised apparatus criticus
- The Introduction highlights and discusses themes and passages of special philosophical and musicological interest, thereby providing an informative starting-point for those unfamiliar with the work as a whole
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- Date Published: February 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009490863
- length: 589 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.842kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Text and translation: Book I
Book II.
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