God's Lyre : Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurd, Sean Alexander.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

This is a book that explores the way physics, music, and theology were connected in ancient Greek philosophy and music theory.

Contents:

Cover

God's Lyre : Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought

Copyright

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I. Music, Nature, and Art

II. The Practical Consequences of Musical Naturalism

Part I: Naturalist Theories of Music

1: Theophrastus and the Physiology of Music

I. Music and Emotion

II. Music and Heat

III. The Ethical Prerequisites for Music

2: Stoic Music

I. Heat and Breath in Stoic Physics

II. Diogenes of Babylon's Theory of Music

III. Music and Dialectics

IV. Cleanthes' Hymnody

Part II: Practical Music in the Naturalist Mode

3: Music and Rhetoric

I. The Greek Pitch Accent, Music, and Grammatical Language

II. Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Musical Naturalism

4: God's Lyre

I. Philo of Alexandria

II. Clement of Alexandria

Conclusion John Chrysostom and Lyric Psalmody

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-783176-1

0-19-783177-X

OCLC:

1579013464