Research Catalog

Title

Psychomusicology and other ancient musicological writings / by Andrew Barker ; edited with introduction, bibliography and indices by Francesco Buè ; with a preface by Eleonora Rocconi.

Author

Barker, Andrew, 1943-2021

Publication

Leuven : Peeters, 2022.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bué, Francesco
• Rocconi, Eleonora

Description

x, 543 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"For over 40 years, Andrew Barker has been studying the ways in which ancient Greek philosophers, scientists and others analysed and discussed the structures underlying musical compositions; he has focused, in particular, on their methodologies, the conceptual frameworks within which their analyses were formed, and the various philosophical commitments they brought to their work. This volume contains a selection of the essays that Barker has published on these and related topics. The essays are preceded by an English version of his book on 'psychomusicology', previously published only in Italian. It examines Greek writers' diverse and often influential speculations about correlations between musical structures and their counterparts in the soul, speculations which led them to striking conclusions about music's practical value in human affairs, and to recommendations for appropriate ways of employing it in such fields as, for example, moral education, psychotherapy, and the organization and governance of a healthy society"--

Series Statement

Aristote, traductions et études

Uniform Title

Aristote, traductions et études.

Subject

• Aristotle
• Aristoxenus
• Music > Philosophy and aesthetics
• Music > Psychological aspects
• Philosophy, Ancient
• Music

Note

• Psychomusicology originally published in Italian translation as: Psicomusicologia nella Grecia antica (Napoli : Guida, 2005).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-502) and indexes.

Contents

The music of the soul. Psychomusicology ; Timaeus on music and the liver -- Music and mathematics. Plato's Philebus : the numbering of a unity ; Aristotle on perception and ratios ; Ptolemy's Pythagoreans, Archytas, and Plato's conception of mathematics ; Mathematical beauty made audible : musical aesthetics in Ptolemy's Harmonics -- Ancient scholarship and musical theories. The Laws and Aristoxenus on the criteria of musical judgement ; Did Aristoxenus write musical history? ; Aristoxenus and the early academy ; Diogenes of Babylon and Hellenistic music theory ; Disreputable music : a performance, a defence, and their intertextual and intermedial resonances (Plutarch Quaest. Conv. 704c4-705b6) -- Harmonic and technical matters. Theophrastus ahnd Aristoxenus : confusions in musical metaphysics ; The jourrneying voice : melody and metaphysics in Aristoxenian science ; Aristoxenus Harm. II, 49.I-50.18 Da Rios : a recantation ; Musical pitch and the enigmatic octave in Problemata XIX.

Call Number

JMF 23-148

ISBN

• 9789042946743
• 9042946741
• 9789042946750 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2020562595
• 9789042946743

OCLC

1336481303

Author

Barker, Andrew, 1943-2021, author.

Title

Psychomusicology and other ancient musicological writings / by Andrew Barker ; edited with introduction, bibliography and indices by Francesco Buè ; with a preface by Eleonora Rocconi.

Publisher

Leuven : Peeters, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Aristote, traductions et études

Aristote, traductions et études.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-502) and indexes.

Added Author

Bué, Francesco, editor, writer of introduction.

Rocconi, Eleonora, writer of preface.

Other Form:

9789042946750 e-book version (OCoLC)1347784257

Other Standard Identifier

9789042946743

Research Call Number

JMF 23-148