Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics : a Greek text and annotated translation

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Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics : a Greek text and annotated translation

Andrew Barker

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics

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Parallel Ancient Greek text with English translation

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Text and translation: Book I
  • Book II.

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