Idea of Music

Herbert M. Schueller was a professor of English at Wayne State University.

• Part I: The Idea of Music in Ancient Europe From Apollo to Damon Plato Aristotle Post-Aristotelian Theory: The Peripatetics The Hellenistic Dispersal of Greek Musical Theory: Epicureans and Stoics The Hellenistic Dispersal: Various Theorists Hebraism and Hellenism Aristides Quintilianus The Fruits of Hellenism: Plotinus and Neoplatonism The Decline of Hellenism Part II: The Church Fathers and the Middle Ages The Fathers of the Church St. Augustine Latin Textbook Pioneers The Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Age The Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries The Philosophers of the High Middle Ages Music Theories and Theorists of the High Middle Ages