God''s Lyre : Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought

Name: God''s Lyre
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780197831748
Price: 13350 KES
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ISBN: 9780197831748

by Sean Alexander Gurd

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0197831745

ISBN-13 9780197831748

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 6th, 2026

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 463 grams

Dimensions 24.00 x 16.50 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Theory of music & musicology Theory of music and musicology Sacred & religious music Sacred and religious music Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 History of religion Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy History of religion

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

God''s Lyre is about a network of ancient ideas that connected musical expression to natural philosophy. This network included Aristotelians, Stoics, and Alexandrian monotheists, and it had a major effect on important theories of language as well. What held the various strands together was a common orientation in which musical phenomena were theorized as a consequence of nature and natural processes. In this book, Sean Alexander Gurd discusses Theophrastus, Diogenes of Babylon, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Philo of Alexandria, Clement of Alexandria, and John Chrysostom. These authors suggest that music was the result of nature rising to a certain pitch of passionate intensity.

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