This paper aims at presenting a preliminary survey of Peripatetic statements about the so-called ‘New Music’ as a significant turning point in musical history, addressed by most of the main exponents of the Peripatos as part of a wider engagement in the study of μουσική. The establishment of a ‘history of music’, whose main phases are represented by its origins, its development through Archaic and Classical times and, eventually, its corruption into a ‘degenerated’ musical style, is crucial in the Peripatetic foundation of μουσική as a scholarly field of enquiry and is inherited by later sources that rely largely on Peripatetic materials, namely the pseudo-Plutarchaean De musica.
'New Music' and early Peripatetic scholarship: the 'degeneration' of music as a historiographical turning point
TOCCO, AMBRA
2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper aims at presenting a preliminary survey of Peripatetic statements about the so-called ‘New Music’ as a significant turning point in musical history, addressed by most of the main exponents of the Peripatos as part of a wider engagement in the study of μουσική. The establishment of a ‘history of music’, whose main phases are represented by its origins, its development through Archaic and Classical times and, eventually, its corruption into a ‘degenerated’ musical style, is crucial in the Peripatetic foundation of μουσική as a scholarly field of enquiry and is inherited by later sources that rely largely on Peripatetic materials, namely the pseudo-Plutarchaean De musica.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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