The idea of music : an introduction to musical aesthetics in antiquity and the Middle Ages

The idea of music : an introduction to musical aesthetics in antiquity and the Middle Ages / by Herbert M. Schueller.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schueller, Herbert M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1988.
Series:	Early drama, art, and music monograph series ; 9.
Subjects:	Music > Philosophy and aesthetics. Music, Greek and Roman > History and criticism. Music theory > History > To 500. Music theory > History > 500-1400. Music > To 500 > History and criticism. Music > 500-1400 > History and criticism. Music theory > 500-1400 > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

pt 1. The idea of music in ancient Europe.
From Apollo to Damon
Plato
Aristotle
Post-Aristotelian theory : the Peripatetics
The Hellenistic dispersal of Greek musical theory : Epicureans and Stoics
The Hellenistic dispersal : various theorists
Hebraism and Hellenism
Aristides Quintilianus
The fruits of Hellenism : Plotinus and Neoplatonism
The decline of Hellenism
pt 2. The church fathers and the Middle Ages.
The fathers of the church
St. Augustine
Latin textbook pioneers
The Carolingian and post-Carolingian age
The Middle Ages : the eleventh and twelfth centuries
The philosophers of the high Middle Ages
Music theories and theorists of the high Middle Ages
Appendix A : Diagrammatic scheme of Ptolemy's psychology relating to music
Appendix B : The Roman Rite
Appendix C : Hugh of St.-Victor's Classification of the Arts and Sciences
Appendix D : Gundisalvo's System of the Arts and Sciences.