Greek Musical Writings Volume 1 The Musician and his Art

Contents

• List of illustrations
• List of authors and passages quoted
• Acknowledgements
• Texts and abbreviations
• Transliteration of Greek words
• Introduction
• 1. Homer
• 2. Hesiod
• 3. The Homeric hymns
• 4. From Archilochus to the late sixth century
• 5. Pindar
• 6. Fifth-century tragedy
• 7. The musical revolution of the later fifth century
• 8. Aristophanes
• 9. Xenophon
• 10. Plato
• Appendix A. The harmoniai
• Appendix B. Damon
• 11. Aristotle
• 12. The Hibeh papyrus on music
• 13. Theophrastus
• 14. The Aristotelian problems
• 15. The Plutarchian treatise on music
• Appendix A. The nomoi
• Appendix B. The spondeion and the spondeiazon tropos
• 16. Athenaeus
• Appendix: Athenaeus' sources
• Bibliography of works by modern authors
• Index.