'Without Timotheus, much of our melopoiia would not exist; but without Phrynis, there wouldn’t have been Timotheus': Pherecrates’ twelve strings, the strobilos and the harmonic paranomia of the New Music
In this paper, I offer a close discussion of the musical innovations attributed to Phrynis, Timotheus and other ‘New Musicians’ mentioned in a famous fragment of Pherecrates’ Chiron, interpreting this fascinating passage in the light of the extant evidence about ancient harmonic theory and practice,...
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Brill Academic Publishers
2018
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