Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 8 February 2024
- ISBN 9781009490863
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages589 pages
- Size 228x151x31 mm
- Weight 860 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b/w illus. 704
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Short description:
Porphyry's multifaceted Commentary is of major philosophical and musicological importance. This is the first ever annotated English translation.
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Porphyry's Commentary, the only surviving ancient commentary on a technical text, is not merely a study of Ptolemy's Harmonics. It includes virtually free-standing philosophical essays on epistemology, metaphysics, scientific methodology, aspects of the Aristotelian categories and the relations between Aristotle's views and Plato's, and a host of briefer comments on other matters of wide philosophical interest. For musicologists it is widely recognised as a treasury of quotations from earlier treatises, many of them otherwise unknown; but Porphyry's own reflections on musical concepts (for instance notes, intervals and their relation to ratios, quantitative and qualitative conceptions of pitch, the continuous and discontinuous forms of vocal movement, and so on) and his snapshots of contemporary music-making have been undeservedly neglected. This volume presents the first English translation and a revised Greek text of the Commentary, with an introduction and notes designed to assist readers in engaging with this important and intricate work.
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Introduction; Text and translation: Book I; Book II.
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