God''s Lyre : Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0197831745
ISBN-13
9780197831748
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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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
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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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