Apollo's lyre: Greek music and music theory in antiquity and the Middle Ages

This study is aimed principally at the reader interested in the musical typologies, instruments, and especially the historical development of music theory and its transmission through the Middle Ages. Mathiesen (professor of music and director of the Center for the History of Music, Indiana U.) starts by setting forth the basic method and scope of the study, and follows with chapters devoted to the music theory itself as it developed during the treatises of Aristoxenus and the Sectio canonis , the period of revival in the second century C.E., and in late antiquity. Transcriptions and analyses of some of the more complete pieces of Greek music, preserved on papyrus, stone, or in manuscript, are integrated with a consideration of the musicopoetic types themselves. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)