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God's Lyre

Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought

AvSean Alexander Gurd

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2026-06-30
Mått:165 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197831748

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Sean Alexander Gurd is the Floyd A. Cailloux professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has active research interests in the areas of Ancient Theatre (especially tragedy), Ancient Music, and any part of intellectual culture that interfaced with the concept of art, craft, or technique. He is also the director of the Ancient Music and Performance Lab, which is dedicated to exploring innovative ways of integrating arts practice with humanities scholarship. He has written four monographs and edited several anthologies.

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Introduction Part I. Naturalist Theories of Music 1: Theophrastus and the Physiology of Music 2: Stoic Music Part II. Practical Music in the Naturalist Mode 3: Music and Rhetoric 4: God's Lyre Conclusion: John Chrysostom and Lyric Psalmody