Elementa Rhythmica: The Fragment of Book II and the Additional Evidence for Aristoxenean Rhythmic Theory

by Aristoxenus

This is the first critical text in over a century of the surviving fragment of Arixtoxenus's Elementa Rhythmica. Pearson offers further evidence of Aristoxenian theory in extracts from later Greek musical writers and from the important papyrus fragment Oxyrhynchus Papyri 2687, which is also presented here with translation and commentary. Pearson demonstrates that Aristoxenus explains rhythm in terms that would be acceptable to musicians today, that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198140517
• ISBN13: 9780198140511
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"