Andrew Barker - Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics (2004)

Andrew Barker - Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics (2004)

• 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: hypotheseis, derivations and adjustments
• Larger systems: modulations in music and in method
• The instruments
• The tests
• Harmonics in a wider perspective
• Bibliography: Abbreviations / Texts and translations / Works by modern authors
  
• Index of names
• Index of topics

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