God's Lyre
Musical Naturalism in Greek Thought
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 August 2026
- ISBN 9780197831748
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 240x165x19 mm
- Weight 463 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is a book that explores the way physics, music, and theology were connected in ancient Greek philosophy and music theory.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I. Naturalist Theories of Music
Theophrastus and the Physiology of Music
Stoic Music
Part II. Practical Music in the Naturalist Mode
Music and Rhetoric
God's Lyre
Conclusion: John Chrysostom and Lyric Psalmody
