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A translation of Arthur Ahlvers' Zahl und Klang bei Platon/Number and sound in Plato
- Title
- A translation of Arthur Ahlvers' Zahl und Klang bei Platon/Number and sound in Plato / Arthur Ahlvers ; translated by John Black.
- Author
- Ahlvers, Arthur.
- Publication
- Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | B398.M3 A3513 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 153 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the history of philosophy ; v. 67
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the history of philosophy (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 67.
- Alternative Title
- Number and sound in Plato
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- I. The So-called Nuptial Number in the Republic -- II. The Third in the Musical Scale of Timaeus. The Third in Greek Music: Dissonance or Consonance? Derivation of the Fifth and the Third in the Scale of Timaeus. On Republic 400a5-6. The Number Five. The Order of the Note Numbers and of the Polyhedra: Music and Geometry. Whole Tones and Fourths in the Scale of Timaeus -- III. The Musical Element in the Formation of the Five Regular Polyhedra in the Timaeus. The Composition of the Polyhedra out of Triangles. The Fairest Triangle or Elementary Triangle. The Musical Interpretation of this as the Geometrical Expression of the Quarter Tone or as the Enharmonic Triangle. (Plato's View of Enharmonicism). Digression on the Construction of the Faces of the Hexahedron -- IV. The Pythagoreans or Democritus? Their Significance for Music. Their Significance for the Theory of the Elements.
- ISBN
- 0773471677
- LCCN
- 2002071831
- OCLC
- 50004837
- ocm50004837
- SCSB-4286919
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries