1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458201603321

Autore

Hagel Stefan

Titolo

Ancient Greek music : a new technical history / / Stefan Hagel [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-107-19141-6

1-139-24866-9

1-316-61089-6

1-282-63697-9

9786612636974

0-511-68938-1

0-511-69086-X

0-511-69198-X

0-511-69012-6

0-511-68863-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 484 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

780.938

Soggetti

Music, Greek and Roman - History and criticism

Music theory - History - To 500

Music theory - History - 500-1400

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-471) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The evolution of ancient Greek musical notation -- Notation, instruments and the voice -- Notation in the handbooks -- Strings and notes -- Fine tuning -- Going beyond Ptolemy -- Assisted resonance -- The extant musical documents -- Aulos types and pitches -- Before Aristoxenus -- Synthesis.

Sommario/riassunto

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory



depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996388920403316

Autore

Cuff Henry <1563-1601.>

Titolo

The differences of the ages of mans life [[electronic resource] ] : together with the originall causes, progresse, and end thereof. Written by the learned Henry Cuffe, sometime fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford. Ann. Dom. 1600

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by B[ernard] A[lsop] and T[homas] F[awcet] for Lawrence Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop in Chancery-lane end, 1633

Descrizione fisica

[16], 128, 131-135, [1] p

Altri autori (Persone)

R. M <fl. 1633.>

Soggetti

Life

Mortality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Editor's dedication signed: R.M.

Printers' names from STC.

The first leaf is blank except from signature-mark A within a border of ornaments.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018