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  1. Aristoxenus

    For the 1st century physician of Asia Minor Aristoxenus physician Aristoxenus lang el floruit ... concerning rhythm and meter. Life Aristoxenus was born at Taranto Tarentum , and was the son of a learned ... , a position which Aristoxenus himself had coveted having achieved great distinction as a pupil ... of Harmony , an incomplete musical treatise. Aristoxenus theory had an empirical tendency in music he ... 20239 h 29239 h.htm Page 139 Book V Chapter IV ref paraphrases the writings of Aristoxenus on music ... of Cicero ref Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones 1.22.51, cf. 1.11.24 ref , was ascribed to Aristoxenus ... of Harmony , Aristoxenus attempted a complete and systematic exposition of Music of ancient Greece ... 1, pp. 66 7 ref In the second book Aristoxenus divides music into seven parts, which he takes to be the genera ... which he had himself prescribed. ref name hawkins66 Aristoxenus rejected the opinion of the Pythagoreanism ... of Aristoxenus scales and genera deviated sharply from his predecessors. Aristoxenus introduced ... tradition. Aristoxenus was also the author of a work On the Primary Duration chronos . A five ... and Arthur Surridge Hunt Hunt s Oxyrhynchus Papyri , vol. 1 1898 and is probably by Aristoxenus. Other ... and notes, ISBN 0521616972 Macran, Henry Stewart 1902 . The Harmonics of Aristoxenus Oxford , Greek ... Books Marquard, Paul 1868 . Die harmonischen Fragmente des Aristoxenus Berlin , Greek text with German ... books.google.com books?id dyxQXD4cdIC Google Books Pearson, Lionel 1990 . Aristoxenus Elementa ... in German Rudolf Westphal Westphal, Rudolf 1883 1893 . Aristoxenus von Tarent Melik und ... Hoi Kaloumenoi harmonikoi The Predecessors of Aristoxenus journal Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological ... and Perception A Study in Aristoxenus journal Journal of Hellenic Studies volume 98 year 1978 pages 9 16 cite book last Crocker first Richard chapter Aristoxenus and Greek Mathematics title Aspects of Medieval ... New York publisher Columbia University Press year 1964 cite journal last Rowell first Lewis title Aristoxenus ...   more details



  1. Aristoxenus (physician)

    Aristoxenus ancient Greek Gr. polytonic was a ancient Greek medicine Greek physician of Asia Minor who was quoted by Caelius Aurelianus . ref Caelius Aurelianus , On Acute and Chronic Diseases iii. 16, p. 233 ref ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Greenhill first William Alexander authorlink title Alexander Philalethes editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 345 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http quod.lib.umich.edu cgi t text pageviewer idx?c moa cc moa idno acl3129.0001.001 q1 aristoxenus size l frm frameset seq 360 ref He was a pupil of Alexander Philalethes and contemporary of Demosthenes Philalethes , ref name galen Galen , De Differ. Puls. iv. 10, vol. viii. p. 743 746 ref ref name hero cite book last Heinrich first Von Staden authorlink coauthors title Herophilus The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria publisher Cambridge University Press year 1989 location Cambridge pages url http www.google.com books?id rGhlIfJZkVoC doi id isbn 0 521 23646 0 ref and must therefore have lived around the 1st century. He was a follower of the teachings of Herophilos , ref name galen and studied at the celebrated Herophilean school at the village of Men Carus, between Laodicea Disambiguation needed date June 2011 and Carura . He wrote a work polytonic On the Herophilean Sect , Latin De Herophili Secta , of which the thirteenth book is quoted by Galen , ref name galen but which is no longer extant. ref Mahne, Diatribe de Aristoxeno, Amstel. 1793 octavo ref References reflist 2 SmithDGRBM inter wiki linking Category Ancient Greek physicians Category 1st century Greek people Category 1st century writers Category Ancient Greek writers known only from secondary sources Category Roman Anatolia ca Aristoxen metge pt Arist xenes m dico ...   more details



  1. Aristoxenes (crater)

    Mercury crater data image caption latitude 82 N or S N longitude 11 E or W W diameter 65 km depth eponym Aristoxenus Aristoxenes is a Impact crater crater at latitude 82, longitude 11 on Mercury planet Mercury . It is 65 km in diameter and was named after Aristoxenus . Category Impact craters on Mercury crater stub Mercury planet stub it Cratere Aristoxenus ...   more details



  1. Phanto of Phlius

    Phanto or Phanton , lang el 4th century BC of Phlius , was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher, and one of the last of the school until the Neopythagorean revival in the Roman era. He was a disciple of Philolaus and Eurytus Pythagorean Eurytus , and, probably in his old age, contemporary with Aristoxenus , the Peripatetic school Peripatetic philosopher, c. 320 BC . ref Iamblichus, de Vit. Pythag. cc. 35, 36. ref ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 46 ref Notes Reflist SmithDGRBM Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Pythagoreans Category Ancient Phliasians ca Fant ...   more details



  1. Themistoclea

    Themistoclea fl. 600  BCE was a priestess , philosopher and mathematician at Delphi . ref name Mlahanas, Ancient Greeks http www.mlahanas.de Greeks LaertiosPythagoras.htm Mlahanas, Ancient Greeks ref . According to surviving sources she was Pythagoras teacher, although she may also have been his sister. ref http books.google.com.br books?id x7ngECDpxmMC&printsec frontcover Mary Ellen Waithe, Ancient women philosophers, 600 B.C. 500 A.D. , p. 11 ref ref name Malone2009 cite book last Malone first John C. title Psychology Pythagoras to present url http books.google.com books?id e6Qa6cMQj8AC&pg PA22 accessdate 25 October 2010 date 30 June 2009 publisher MIT Press isbn 9780262012966 page 22 ref After Pythagoras coined the term philosophy , she became the first woman in history to whom the word philosopher was applied. ref name Malone2009 Themistoclea is mentioned in the writings of Aristoxenus ref name Mlahanas, Ancient Greeks and Diogenes Laertius . In his biography of Pythagoras in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers , Diogenes cites Aristoxenus statement that she taught Pythagoras his moral doctrines Aristoxenus asserts that Pythagoras derived the greater part of his ethics ethical doctrines from Themistoclea, the priestess at Delphi. ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus text 1999.01.0258 book 8 chapter 1&highlight themistoclea Perseus Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers ref References reflist Greek mathematics Persondata NAME Themistoclea ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION priestess, philosopher and mathematician at Delphi DATE OF BIRTH 600 BCE PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Delphi Category Pythagoreans Category Presocratic philosophers Category Ancient Greek mathematicians Category Ancient Greek women philosophers Category Women mathematicians Category Ancient Greek priestesses fr Th mistocl a it Temistoclea pt Temistocleia sv Themistoclea ...   more details



  1. Xenophilus

    Image Xenophilus Nuremberg Chronicle.jpg right thumb Xenophilus, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle . ref http de.wikisource.org wiki Die Schedelsche Weltchronik deutsch 079 Die Schedelsche Weltchronik , 079 ref Xenophilus lang el 4th century BC of Chalcidice , ref sep entry pythagoreanism Pythagoreanism Carl Huffman ref was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher and musician, who lived in the first half of the 4th century BC. ref Kathleen Freeman, 1983, Ancilla to the pre Socratic philosophers , page 81, Harvard University Press ref Aulus Gellius relates that Xenophilus was the intimate friend and teacher of Aristoxenus , and implies that Xenophilus taught him Pythagorean doctrine. ref Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae , iv. 11 ref He was said to have belonged to the last generation of Pythagoreans, and he is the only Pythagorean known to have lived in Athens in the 4th century BC. ref name hahm David E. Hahm, 1977, The origins of Stoic cosmology , page 225. Ohio State University Press ref We learn from Diogenes La rtius that Aristoxenus wrote that when Xenophilus was once asked by someone how he could best educate his son, Xenophilus replied, By making him the citizen of a well governed state. ref Diogenes La rtius, viii. 15 16 ref According to Pseudo Lucian , Aristoxenus is supposed to have said that Xenophilus lived 105 years. ref Pseudo Lucian, Macrobii , 18 cf. Valerius Maximus, viii. c. 13, Pliny, Naturalis Historia , vii. 50 ref Xenophilus enjoyed considerable fame in the Renaissance , apparently because of Pliny the Elder Pliny s claim that he lived 105 years without ever being sick. ref Kevin Patrick Siena, Sins of the flesh responding to sexual disease in early modern Europe , page 95. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. ref Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Xenophilus Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Ancient Greek philosophers Category Pythagoreans Category Philosophers ...   more details



  1. Aristides Quintilianus

    Aristides Quintilianus Greek alphabet Greek was the Greece Greek author of an ancient music al treatise, On Music Per musik s , i.e. On Music , who probably lived in the third century AD. According to Marcus Meibomius , in whose collection Antiq. Musicae Auc. Septem , 52 this work is printed, it contains everything on music that is to be found in antiquity except for Aristoxenus . See Pauly Wissowa , Realencyc. ii. 894. 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Quintilianus, Aristides ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Quintilianus, Aristides Category Ancient Greek musicologists Category Roman era Greeks Greece bio stub bg ca Aristides Quintili el fr Aristide Quintilien hu Aristides Quintilianus ru fi Aristides Quintilianus ...   more details



  1. Academy of Music (Baltimore)

    The Academy of Music in Baltimore, Maryland was an important music venue in that city after opening following the American Civil War . The Academy was located at 516 Howard Street Baltimore North Howard Street . The Academy was demolished in the late 1920s, as the Stanley Theatre was being built in the same block. References http www.kilduffs.com ADA.html Kilduffs cite book title New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 2 Aristoxenus to Bax chapter Baltimore last Galkin first Elliott W. coauthors N. Quist pages 611 612 editor Stanley Sadie Ed. publisher MacMillan Publishers year 2001 id ISBN 0 333 60800 3 location New York music org stub Category History of Baltimore, Maryland Category Culture of Baltimore, Maryland ...   more details



  1. Hypomnemata (disambiguation)

    Hypomnemata lang grc may refer to hypomnema , the Greek term, later used by Michel Foucault ancient literary works with the Greek title Hypomnemata see Aeneas Tacticus Aristoxenus Hegesander historian Hegesippus chronicler Ion of Chios Strabo Symmachus translator used in Greek often singular as the title of a commentary as in the Medieval manuscripts of many of the Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca see Porphyry philosopher the same title used by modern authors see Jan Bake Thomas Bartholin Heinrich von Cocceji Christian August Crusius John Prideaux Daniel Sennert Simon Stevin Andreas Werckmeister ill de Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben , a series of scholarly publications in Classics disambig ...   more details



  1. Incomposite interval

    In music , since incomposite means undivided, an incomposite interval diast ma , German ungeteilte Intervall , is a large musical interval interval which appears as a melody melodic step or second in a musical scale scale , but which is a steps and skips skip in other parts of the scale. ref Chalmers, John H. 1993 . Divisions of the Tetrachord , p.209. ISBN 9780945996040. Full date December 2011 ref Aristoxenus says, Let us assume that in each genus music genus an interval is melodically incomposite if the voice, in singing a melody, cannot divide it into intervals. ref Barker, Andrew 2004 . Greek Musical Writings , p.147. ISBN 9780521616973. Full date December 2011 ref For example the augmented second in the harmonic minor scale , on A, occurs as a step between F and G music , though the equivalent minor third occurs elsewhere, such as a skip between A & C. Citation needed date December 2011 Sources reflist Category Intervals music theory stub ...   more details



  1. Ross Jungnickel

    Ross Jungnickel 1875 1962 was an American music publisher and arranger, and founder of a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , a precursor to the modern organization of that name. He was a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory . He also composed an orchestral version of Adagio Pathetique , by Benjamin Godard , which was published in 1910. References cite book title New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 2 Aristoxenus to Bax chapter Baltimore last Galkin first Elliott W. coauthors N. Quist pages 611 612 editor Stanley Sadie Ed. publisher MacMillan Publishers year 2001 id ISBN 0333608003 location New York cite book title The Standard Opera and Concert Guide Part Two first George P. last Upton coauthors Felix Borowski pages 213 isbn 1419181394 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Jungnickel, Ross ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1875 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1962 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Jungnickel, Ross Category American composers Category 1875 births Category 1962 deaths US music bio stub ...   more details



  1. Ptolemais of Cyrene

    . Aristoxenus of Tarentum adopted them both in the same way. For neither can what is perceived ... adoption of something perceivable in the beginning , and some of the musici who follow Aristoxenus ...   more details



  1. Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 9

    File P. Oxy. 9.jpg thumb P. Oxy. 9 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 9 P. Oxy. 9 is a fragment of the Ruthmica Stoicheia of Aristoxenus of Tarentum , written in Greek language Greek . It was discovered by Bernard Grenfell Grenfell and Arthur Surridge Hunt Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus . The fragment is dated to the third century. It is housed at Trinity College, Dublin . The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898. ref name Oxy http 163.1.169.40 cgi bin library?e d 000 00 0POxy 00 0 0 0prompt 10 4 ded 0 1l 1 en 50 20 about 1708 00031 001 1 0utfZz 8 00&a d&c POxy&cl CL5.1.1&d HASH016fbbe3e0ae766e1d920699 P. Oxy. 9 at the Oxyrhynchus Online ref The manuscript was written on papyrus in a form of the roll. The measurements of the fragment are 227 by 435 mm. The fragment contains a five column fragment of a treatise on meter. The text is written in an upright Uncial script uncial hand. ref Cite book last Grenfell first B. P. authorlink Bernard Pyne Grenfell coauthors Arthur Surridge Hunt A. S. Hunt title Oxyrhynchus Papyri I publisher year 1898 location London pages 14 21 url http www.archive.org stream oxyrhynchuspapyr01grenuoft page 14 mode 2up doi id isbn ref See also Oxyrhynchus Papyri Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 8 Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 10 References Reflist Template Oxyrhynchus Papyri Category Oxyrhynchus papyri vol. I 009 Category 3rd century manuscripts P.Oxy.I.source ...   more details



  1. Echecrates

    In ancient Greece , Echecrates was the name of the following men Echecrates of Thessaly , a military officer of Ptolemy IV Philopator , documented around 219 217 BC. A son of Demetrius the Fair c. 285 250 BC by Olympias of Larissa, and brother of Antigonus III Doson . He had a son named Antigonus after his uncle. ref Liv. xl. 54 see vol. i. pp. 187, 189, b. ref Three Pythagorean philosophers mentioned by Iamblichus ref Vit. Pyth. ad fin. ref A Locria n, one of those to whom Plato is said to have gone for instruction. ref Cic. de Fin. v. 29. ref The name Caetus in Valerius Maximus ref viii. 7, Ext. 3 ref is perhaps an erroneous reading for Echecrates. A Tarentum Tarentine , probably the same who is men tioned in Plato s Ninth Letter Plato Ninth Letter . Echecrates of Phlius , a contemporary with Aristoxenus the Peripatetic. ref Diog. La rt. viii. 46 comp. Gell. iv. 11 Fabric. Bibl. Graec. i. p. 861. ref References SmithDGRBM author EE article Echecrates volume 2 page 2 reflist Category Ancient Greeks ca Echecrates de Echekrates et Echekrates es Echecrates fil sofo is Ekkekrates it Echecrate hu Ekhekrat sz pl Echekrates z Fliuntu pt Equ crates ...   more details



  1. Nomos Alpha

    Nomos Alpha 1966 is a piece for solo cello composed by Iannis Xenakis in 1965 in music 1965 , commissioned by Radio Bremen for cellist Siegfried Palm , and dedicated to mathematicians Aristoxenus Aristoxenus of Tarentum , variste Galois , and Felix Klein . ref DeLio, Thomas. The Dialectics of Structure and Materials Iannis Xenakis Nomos Alpha . Cited in DeLio 1985 . p.xii ref This piece is an example of a style of music called, by Xenakis, symbolic music a style of music which makes use of set theory , abstract algebra , and mathematical logic in order to create and analyze musical composition s. Along with symbolic music, Xenakis is known for his development of stochastic music and strategie music . During his lifetime, Xenakis was a vocal critic of Disambiguation needed Modern music modern western music date June 2011 , since the development of polyphony for its diminished set of outside time structures, especially when compared to Folk music folk and the Byzantine music Byzantine musical traditions. This perceived incompleteness of western music was the main impetus for the development of symbolic music and for composing Nomos Alpha, his most well known example. Nomos Alpha consists of 24 sections divided into two layers. The first layer consists of every section not divisible by four, while the second layer consists of every fourth section. ref DeLio, Thomas. Iannis Xenakis Nomos Alpha The Dialectics of Structure and Materials. Journal of Music Theory, Vol. 24, No. 1 Spring, 1980 , pp. 63 95 Published by Duke University Press on behalf of the Yale University Department of Music. pp. 63 ref Layer 1 Layer 1 of Nomos Alpha is determined by the 24 Element mathematics element octahedral group isomorphism isomorphic to the rotations of a cube . The elements of the set are permutations and the binary operator is Function composition composition . Layer 2 Layer 2 of Nomos Alpha in contrast to Layer 1 is not determined by group theory , but is instead, a continuous moti ...   more details



  1. Alexander Philalethes

    Alexander Philalethes ancient Greek Gr. polytonic was an Ancient Greek medicine ancient Greek physician , ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Greenhill first William Alexander authorlink title Alexander Philalethes editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 125 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http quod.lib.umich.edu cgi t text pageviewer idx?c moa cc moa idno acl3129.0001.001 q1 demosthenes size l frm frameset seq 140 ref whom Priscian called Alexander Amator Veri Alexander Truth Lover , ref name pris Priscian , iv. p. 102, d. ref and who was probably the same person quoted by Caelius Aurelianus under the name of Alexander Laodicensis . ref Caelius Aurelianus , On Acute and Chronic Diseases ii. i, p. 74 ref He lived probably towards the end of the 1st century, as Strabo speaks of him as a contemporary. ref name strabo Strabo , xii. p. 580 ref He was a pupil of Asclepiades , ref name pris succeeded an otherwise unknown Zeuxis as head of a celebrated Herophilos Herophilean school of medicine, established in Phrygia between Laodicea on the Lycus Laodicea and Carura , ref name strabo and was tutor to Aristoxenus physician Aristoxenus and Demosthenes Philalethes . ref Galen , De Differ. Puls. iv. 4, 10, vol. viii. pp. 727, 746 ref He is several times mentioned by Galen and also by Soranus Greek physician Soranus , ref Soranus Greek physician Soranus , De Arte Obstetr. c. 93, p. 210 ref and appears to have written some medical works, which are no longer extant. The view, once current, that Alexander s Areskonta served as a doxography doxographical basis for such authors as Anonymus Londinensis , Aetius philosopher Aetius the doxographer , Soranus of Ephesus , and Anonymus Bruxellensis is an inference on the basis of flimsy evidence. ref Heinrich von Staden, Rupture and continuity Hellenistic reflections on the history of medicine ...   more details



  1. Demosthenes Philalethes

    Demosthenes Philalethes ancient Greek Gr. polytonic was an ancient Greek medicine ancient Greek physician of Asia Minor who was one of the pupils of Alexander Philalethes , a contemporary of Aristoxenus physician Aristoxenus , and a follower of the teachings of Herophilos . ref name galen Galen , De Differ. Puls. iv. 4, vol. viii. p. 727 ref He succeeded Alexander as the head of the Herophilean school of medicine in Carura . ref name hero cite book last Heinrich first Von Staden authorlink coauthors title Herophilus The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria publisher Cambridge University Press year 1989 location Cambridge pages url http www.google.com books?id rGhlIfJZkVoC doi id isbn 0 521 23646 0 ref He probably lived around the beginning of the 1st century, and was especially celebrated for his skill as an oculist . He was the author of the most influential ophthalmology ophthalmological work of antiquity, ref name hero the Ophthalmicus , on diseases of the eye, which appears to have been still extant in the Middle Ages , but of which nothing now remains, although some extracts are preserved by A tius Amidenus , Paul of Aegina , Rufus of Ephesus , and other later writers. ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Greenhill first William Alexander authorlink title Alexander Philalethes editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 991 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http quod.lib.umich.edu cgi t text pageviewer idx?c moa cc moa idno acl3129.0001.001 q1 philalethes size l frm frameset seq 1006 ref He also wrote a work on the pulse , which is quoted by Galen . ref name galen Demosthenes was the last known Herophilean in Asia Minor. ref name hero ref cite book last Plinio first Prioreschi authorlink coauthors title A History of Medicine publisher Horatius date location pages 504 url http www.google.com books?id HaX733MnZZ4C doi id is ...   more details



  1. 1st millennium BC in music

    Refimprove date August 2009 2nd millennium BC in music 1st millennium BC in music 1st millennium in music Events 586 BC Sakadas of Argos wins the prize for aulos playing at the Pythian games, the first of three times. His aulos nomoi , especially one portraying the victorious combat of Apollo with the Python mythology Python , remained popular for over two hundred years Anderson and Mathiesen 2001 . 405 BC Aristophanes , in The Frogs , defends Aeschylus treatment of poetry and music against the brilliance of Euripides , whom he criticizes for many musical transgressions, and charges Socrates with having advocated the destruction of the musical and literary traditions of tragedy Anderson, Mathiesen, and Anderson 2001a . Classical music 138 or 128 BC Athenaeus musician Athenios son of Athenios composes the Delphic Hymns First Delphic Hymn B lis 1992, 48 49 and 53 54 P hlmann and West 2001, 71 . 128 BC Limenius Limenios, son of Thoinos composes a Paean and Prosodion to the God i.e., Apollo , today called the Delphic Hymns Second Delphic Hymn P hlmann and West 2001, 71 . between 200 BC and 100 AD the Seikilos epitaph , Hoson z s, phainou , inscribed on a stone funerary monument Musical theatre 408 BC Euripides Orestes one of the earliest surviving fragments of ancient Greek music is from this play 409 BC Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis Births ca. 485 BC Euripides ca. 375 360 BC Aristoxenus Aristoxenos of Tarentum 2nd century BC Athenaeus musician Athenios son of Athenios 2nd century BC Limenius Limenios, son of Thoinos Deaths ca. 406 BC Euripides ca. 300 BC Aristoxenus Aristoxenos of Tarentum 2nd or early 1st century BC Athenaeus musician Athenios son of Athenios 2nd or early 1st century BC Limenius Limenios, son of Thoinos See also List of years in music Sources Anderson, Warren, and Thomas J. Mathiesen. 2001. Sacadas Sakadas of Argos . The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London Macmillan Publishers. Anderson, Warren ...   more details



  1. Didymus the Musician

    Didymus the Musician was a music theorist in Rome of the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD, who combined elements of earlier theoretical approaches with an appreciation of the aspect of performance. Formerly assumed to be identical with the Alexandrian grammarian and lexicographer Didymus Chalcenterus , because Ptolemy and Porphyry referred to him as Didymus ho mousikos the musician , classical scholars now believe that this Didymus was a younger grammarian and musician working in Rome at the time of Nero Richter 2001 . According to Andrew Barker 1994, Page needed date January 2011 , his intention was to revive and produce contemporary performances of the music of Greek antiquity. The syntonic comma of 81 80 is sometimes called the comma of Didymus after him Richter 2001 . Among his works was On the Difference between the Aristoxenus Aristoxenians and the Pythagoreans . References Barker, Andrew, Greek Musicologists in the Roman Empire , in Timothy D. Barnes ed. , The Sciences in Greco Roman Society , Aperion A Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science 27.4 December 1994 . Richter, Lukas. 2001. Didymus Didymos ho mousikos . The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell professor of music John Tyrrell . London Macmillan Publishers. Category 1st century Greek people Category Ancient Greek music theorists ca Didymos el M sic de Didymos der Musiker es Didymos el M sico eo Didimo la muzikisto hu Did mosz zen sz nl Didymus musicoloog ru ...   more details



  1. Rudolf Westphal

    Image Rudolf Westphal.JPG thumb right Rudolf Westphal Rudolf Westphal July 3, 1826 July 10, 1892 , Germany German classical scholar, was born at Obernkirchen in Schaumburg . He studied at university of Marburg Marburg and university of T bingen T bingen , and was professor at university of Breslau Breslau 1858 1862 and university of Moscow Moscow 1875 1879 . He subsequently lived at B ckeburg, and died at Stadthagen in Schaumburg Lippe on the 10th of July 1892. Westphal was a man of varied attainments, but his chief claim to remembrance rests upon his contributions on Greek music and metre. His chief works are Griechische Metrik 3rd ed., 1885 1889 System der antiken Rhythmik 1865 Hephaestion s De metris enchiridion 1866 Aristoxenus of Tarentum translation and commentary, 1883 1893, vol. ii. being edited after his death by F Saran Die Musik des griechischen Altertums 1883 Allgemeine Metrik der indogermanischen and semitischen Volker 1892 He made translations of Catullus 1870 and of Aristophanes The Acharnians Acharnians 1889 , in which he successfully reproduced the Dorism s in Low German . 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Westphal, Rudolf ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1826 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH July 10, 1892 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Westphal, Rudolf Category 1826 births Category 1892 deaths Category People from Obernkirchen Category German classical scholars Category German music theorists Germany academic bio stub music theory stub de Rudolf Westphal nl Rudolf Westphal ru , sv Rudolf Westphal ...   more details



  1. Successions of Philosophers

    Successions of Philosophers or Philosophers Successions lang el was the name of several lost works from the Hellenistic era . Their purpose was to depict the philosophers of different schools in terms of a line of succession of which they were a part. From the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC there were Successions lang el written by Antigonus of Carystus , Sotion , Heraclides Lembos an epitome of Sotion , Sosicrates , Alexander Polyhistor , Jason of Nysa , Antisthenes of Rhodes , and Nicias of Nicaea . ref Jorgen Mejer, 1978 , Diogenes Laertius and His Hellenistic Background , pages 62 73. Franz Steiner. ref The surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes La rtius 3rd century AD draws upon this tradition. In addition to these, there were often histories of single schools. Such works were created by Phanias of Eresus On the Socratics , Idomeneus of Lampsacus On the Socratics , Sphaerus On the Eretrian philosophers , and Straticles On Stoics . Among the papyri found at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum , there are works devoted to the successions of the Stoic s, ref PHerc. 1018 ref Platonic Academy Academics ref PHerc. 1021 ref , and Epicurean s. ref PHerc. 1232, 1289, 176 ref In a later period, Plutarch produced On the First Philosophers and their Successors and On the Cyrenaic s , and Galen wrote On Plato s Sect and On the Hedonistic Sect Epicureans . There were often biographies of individual philosophers with a brief description of his successors. Of such nature were Aristoxenus s Life of Pythagoras , Andronicus of Rhodes Andronicus s Life of Aristotle , Ptolemy s Life of Aristotle , and Iamblichus s Life of Pythagoras . Notes reflist Category Lost literature Category Ancient Greek works Category Ancient philosophical literature ar fi Filosofien perimysj rjestykset ...   more details



  1. Oratorio Society of Baltimore

    The Oratorio Society of Baltimore was founded by Otto Sutro in 1882, with Fritz Finke as music director. Its first performance came in 1885. In 1892, Finke left the Oratorio Society to return to Germany. Mr. Sutro contacted Joseph Pache , a German conservatory professor in New York, to succeed Finke as general director. Pache directed the society through its disbandment in 1924. References cite book title Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians author George Grove coauthors Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd year 1920 publisher T. Presser cite book title New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 2 Aristoxenus to Bax chapter Baltimore last Galkin first Elliott W. coauthors N. Quist pages 611 612 editor Stanley Sadie Ed. publisher MacMillan Publishers year 2001 id ISBN 0333608003 location New York cite book title Baltimore Its History and Its People author Clayton Colman Hall publisher Lewis Historical Publishing Co. year 1912 pages 654 url http books.google.com books?id vCy9GAlzntAC&pg PA1&lpg PA1&dq 22Baltimore Its History and Its People 22&source web&ots jayH4 Q fe&sig 2A8arVxUkR1 E9ivq1NuUh1LG0g&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 1&ct result PPA655,M1 cite news title JOSEPH PACHE RITES ARE SET FOR FRIDAY accessdate 10 August 2011 newspaper The Sun 1837 1985 date Dec 8, 1926 Category Organizations based in Baltimore, Maryland music org stub ...   more details



  1. Cleinias of Tarentum

    Cleinias lang grc 4th century BCE of Tarentum was a Pythagoreanism Pythagorean philosopher , ref name DGRBM cite encyclopedia last Elder first Edward authorlink title Cleinias editor William Smith lexicographer William Smith encyclopedia Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 782 publisher Little, Brown and Company location Boston year 1867 url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0791.html ref and a contemporary and friend of Plato , as appears from the story perhaps otherwise worthless which Diogenes La rtius gives on the authority of Aristoxenus , to the effect that Plato wished to burn all the writings of Democritus which he could collect, but was prevented by Cleinias and Amyclus of Heraclea . ref Diogenes La rtius , ix. 40 ref In his practice, Cleinias was a true Pythagorean. Thus we hear that he used to assuage his anger by playing on his harp and, when Prorus of Cyrene had lost all his fortune through a political revolution, Cleinias, who knew nothing of him except that he was a Pythagorean, took on himself the risk of a voyage to Cyrene, Libya Cyrene , and supplied him with money to the full extent of his loss. ref comp. Thrige, Res Cyrenensium , 48 ref ref Iamblichus of Chalcis , Vit. Pyth. 27, 31, 33 ref ref Claudius Aelianus , Varia Historia xiv. 23 ref ref Perizon. ad loc. ref ref Chamaeleon philosopher Chamael. Pont. ap. Athenaeus xiv. 623, f. ref ref Diodorus Siculus , Fragm. lib. x. ref ref Johann Albert Fabricius , Bibl. Graec. i. pp. 840, 886 ref References reflist 2 SmithDGRBM DEFAULTSORT Cleinias Of Tarentum Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC philosophers Category Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia Category Ancient Greek musicians Category Ancient Tarantines ca Cl nies de T rent de Kleinias von Tarent eu Tarentoko Klimas fr Clinias de Tarente it Clinia di Taranto ...   more details



  1. Agrias amydon

    italictitle Taxobox name Agrias amydon image Agriasamydonathenaisabamaryllis.JPG image width 240px image caption Agrias amydon frontina regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera familia Nymphalidae tribus Preponini genus Agrias species A. amydon binomial Agrias amydon binomial authority William Chapman Hewitson Hewitson , 1854 synonyms Agrias phalcidon small Hewitson, 1855 small Agrias pericles small Bates, 1860 small Agrias anaxagoras small Staudinger, 1886 small Agrias eleonora small Fruhstorfer, 1895 small Agrias mapiri small Fassl, 1913 small The Amydon Agrias or White spotted Agrias Agrias amydon is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from Mexico , south through Central America to South America . The larvae feed on Erythroxylum species, including Erythroxylum havanense . Subspecies Agrias amydon amydon Colombia Agrias amydon phalcidon Brazil Agrias amydon zenodorus Ecuador, northern Peru Agrias amydon amydonius Peru Loreto, Iquitos , Brazil Amazonas , Colombia Agrias amydon boliviensis Bolivia Yungas , Peru Agrias amydon bogotana western Venezuela to north eastern Colombia Agrias amydon frontina north western Ecuador Rio Mira , western Colombia Agrias amydon ferdinandi Brazil Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Goi s, Bahia, Pernambuco , Bolivia Agrias amydon aurantiaca Brazil Par , Amazonas , Surinam, south western Venezuela Agrias amydon aristoxenus Peru, Bolivia Agrias amydon excelsior Brazil Amazonas Agrias amydon uniformis Brazil Roraima , southern Venezuela Agrias amydon rubella Brazil Amazonas Agrias amydon oaxacata Mexico Oaxaca Agrias amydon smalli Panama Agrias amydon philatelica Mexico Chiapas , Costa Rica Agrias amydon lacandona Mexico There is also an undescribed subspecies from Venezuela. gallery Image Agriasamydonextensa.JPG Agrias amydon amydonius Image AgriasphalcidonphalcidonBertrandiF.JPG Agrias amydon phalcidon gallery Category Charaxinae Charaxinae stub es Agrias amydon vi Agrias amydon ...   more details



  1. Musical system of ancient greece

    of Aristoxenus The nature of Aristoxenus s scales and genera deviated sharply from his predecessors. Aristoxenus introduced a radically different model for creating scales. Instead of using discrete ... his genera only by moving the lichanoi DEFINE , Aristoxenus varied both lichanoi and parhypate in considereable ... ref The Greek scales in the Aristoxenus Aristoxenian tradition were Barbera 1984, 240 ref name Barbera1984 ... names with the octave species appears to precede Aristoxenus, who criticized their application ... name Mathiesen2001a Aristoxenus s tonoi The term tonos pl. tonoi was used in four senses as note, interval ... in Music History , p. 44. ref Cleonides attributes thirteen tonoi to Aristoxenus, which represent ... between the Hypodorian and the Hypermixolydian Mathiesen 2001a, 6 iii e . ref name Mathiesen2001a Aristoxenus ... These are as yet incomplete. Winnington Ingram, R.P. 1932 . Aristoxenus and the intervals of Greek ..., Henry S. Macran, http www.archive.org stream aristoxenouharm00arisgoog The Harmonics of Aristoxenus . The Barbera translation cited above is more up to date. http www.tonalsoft.com monzo aristoxenus aristoxenus.aspx Analysis of Aristoxenus from Joe Monzo. Full of interesting and insightful mathematical ... of a complement to the above Aristoxenus but, dealing with the earlier and arithmetically precise ...   more details




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