Stefan Hagel - Böcker

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology.

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various adaptations necessitated by changing musical styles and newly invented instruments, to its final canonical form. It thus emerges how closely ancient harmonic theory depended on the culturally dominant instruments, the lyre and the aulos. These threads are followed down to late antiquity, when details recorded by Ptolemy permit an exceptionally clear view. Dr Hagel discusses the textual and pictorial evidence, introducing mathematical approaches wherever feasible, but also contributes to the interpretation of instruments in the archaeological record and occasionally is able to outline the general features of instruments not directly attested. The book will be indispensable to all those interested in Greek music, technology and performance culture and the general history of musicology.

I kungariket Semarien råder fred sedan sex gyllene decennier. Ätten Teraphen regerar från falktronen i huvudstaden Galenda. På ytan verkar allt lugnt, men under den hotar en tid där fel gränser korsas. Någonting går sönder och hemligheter kommer i dagern. Tennara fasar för blomfesten medan kung Sanedars mor sanndrömmer. Moder superian Célenne ser kristallskärvorna. Vargbrodern Renlon är på jakt och kapten Geral leder utredningen av ett mord. Antalet sprickor i den perfekta fasaden växer och allt riskerar att rämna. Kommer den teraphenska freden att hålla? I en värld full av oförutsedda ögonblick, osannolika väsen och ofattbar grymhet kan minsta beslut, minsta feltolkning, få oanade konsekvenser.