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Record Nr.

UNISA996234748403316

Autore

Porphyrius

Titolo

Commentarius in Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonica / / Porphyrius; Massimo Raffa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2016]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-041967-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana

Disciplina

520.924

Soggetti

Porphyry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Hoc volvmine continentvr -- Praefatio -- Conspectvs librorvm -- Conspectvs siglorvm -- Adnotatio ad textvm -- Πορφυρίου εἰς τὰ Ἁρμονικὰ Πτολεμαίου Ὑπόμνημα -- ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ Αʹ -- ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΥ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝ ΤΩΝ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΑΡΜΟΝΙΚΩΝ -- APPENDIX I. -- APPENDIX II -- Index avctorvm -- Index verborvm

Sommario/riassunto

Porphyry's  Commentary on Ptolemy's "Harmonics" is a unique document of Neoplatonic thought on music. Not only does it contain a thorough discussion of the perception and appreciation of pitched sounds, but it also gives us a hint of how the technicalities of music theory might have been taught to non specialised readers with a philosophical background; moreover, it is a treasure of "ations from lost authors and works. The apparatus of this new edition includes all the emendations and conjectures that have been proposed by many scholars since Ingemar Düring's 1932 edition and takes into account a few manuscripts that escaped the previous editor's otherwise remarkable recensio. The boundaries of some "ations from ancient authors are redefined and many misprints corrected. Finally, the text of the Byzantine epitome of the Commentary is here edited for the first time.