Scientific method in Ptolemy's Harmonics /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reason and perception
- Pitch and quantity
- The ratios of the concords : (1) the Pythagoreans
- The ratios of the concords : (2) Ptolemy's hupotheseis
- Critique of Aristoxenian principles and conclusions
- Ptolemy on the harmonic divisions of his predecessors
- Melodic intervals : hupotheseis, derivations and adjustments
- Larger systems : modulations in music and in method
- The instruments
- The tests
- Harmonics in a wider perspective.