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ancient and modern tuning comparison
ancient Greek music
Aristides Quintilianus
Author_Benjamin Wardhaugh
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Coincidence Theory
Conjunct Tetrachords
Diatonic Genus
Duple Ratio
Enharmonic Diesis
Enharmonic Genus
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Euclidean Sectio Canonis
Fa Sol
Full Tone
harmonics
Henry Oldenburg
historical musicology
John Birchensha
La Fa
La La
La Mi
Marsh's Library
Marsh’s Library
Mi Fa
Narcissus Marsh
organ construction
Ptolemy's Harmonics
ptolemys
Ptolemy’s Harmonics
resonance phenomena
Savilian Professor
scientific correspondence
sol
Sol La
Thomas Salmon
Trumpet Marine
tuning theory
Vice Versa
Wallis's Edition
Wallis’s Edition
Product details
- ISBN 9780754668701
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory, the building of organs, the phenomena of resonance, and other musical topics.
David Cram is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His wide-ranging publications on the history of ideas about language in the seventeenth century include a co-edited edition of the works of George Dalgarno. Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of a number of works on the history of mathematics and its applications. He has edited the writings of Thomas Salmon and co-edited those of John Birchensha for this Ashgate series.
