How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman Empire The
assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their …

The system of melodic notation, which was invented in Classical Greece and used through
Late Antiquity, is set out and explained in its likely historical development, its relation to …

Apart from the better studied musical 'handbooks' of the Roman period, mostly focused on
matters of harmonics and sometimes rhythmics, there was a type of text known as 'Musics' …

From the ancient world few scores have reached us, mainly preserved in papyri from Graeco‐
Roman Egypt; there are also some epigraphic texts, and some exceptional records within …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato i Page 3 Also available
from Bloomsbury Aesthetic Themes in Pagan and Christian Neoplatonism: From Plotinus to …

This article explores the advent of two foundational characteristics of the modern concept of
harmony inaugurated by Rameau's Traité de l'harmonie (1722): first, that its principal objects …

Ville Vuolanto started this bibliography project in 2003 under the auspices of the University
of Tampere as a modest enterprise of some 300 entries. Since then scholarship on ancient …

Music was everywhere in ancient Rome. Wherever one went in the sprawling city, the sound
of singing and piping, drumming and strumming was never far out of earshot. This book …

This is a captivating story of music-making at social recreations from Homeric times to the
age of Augustine. It tells about the music itself and its purposes, as well as the ways in which …

Zu den vielen Herausforderungen, gegen die der erste römische Kaiser Augustus und seine
neue Form der Monarchie bestehen mussten, gehörte nicht zuletzt, seine Macht auch über …