Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations, texts and typographic conventions; Introduction; 1. Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism; Appendix: the scalar Divisions of Archytas; 2. Plato; 3. Aristotle; 4. The Aristotelian Problemata; 5. The Peripatetic De Audibilibus; 6. Theophrastus; 7. Aristoxenus Elementa Harmonica; Book I; Book II; Book III; Appendix: Aristoxenus' Elementa Rhythmica Book II; 8. The Euclidean Sectio Canonis; 9. Minor authors quoted by Theon and Porphyry; Passages from Theon of Smyrna; Passages from Porphyry; 10. Nicomachus Enchiridion; 11. Ptolemy Harmonicas; Book I; Book II; Appendix to Book II; Book III; 12. Aristides Quintilianus De Musica; Book I; Book II; Book III; Bibliography; Index.

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A second volume of Greek Musical Writings containing important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory.

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