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	Tonalsoft Encyclopaedia of Tuning - The measurement of Aristoxenus's Divisions of the Tetrachord (c)1999-2004 by Joe ...
		Aristoxenus described the various different sizes of intervals in his classification of shades and genera of tetrachord scales.
		Aristoxenus therefore chose to use the newly formulated methods of geometry to pinpoint examples of his divisions of the tetrachord.
		Aristoxenus claims that the resulting 262144:177147 is a '5th', but it is a very narrow one of ~678 cents, and would not sound like a 'perfect 5th'.
	sonic-arts.org /monzo/aristoxenus/318tet.htm (12892 words)

	Aristoxenus of Tarentum - Encyclopedia.com
		This work is an act of homage to the imperishable work of Aristoxenus of Tarentum, musician, philosopher and mathematician and founder of the...
		Xenakis argues that all music theorists, from Aristoxenus to Rameau, are indebted to this branch of philosophy: We are...
		Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the birth of musicology.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Aristoxe.html (264 words)

	ARISTOXENUS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristoxenus’ education was directed by his father Spintharos who was probably a disciple of Socrates.
		Aristoxenus’ major works were on the theory of music, and from them only fragments of two works are extant: ’Αρμονικα στοιχεια [Harmonika stoicheia] (Elements of harmonics); and ‘Ρυθμικτα στοιχεια [Rhythmika stoicheia] (Elements of rhythmics.
		Aristoxenus developed this view and introduced the principle of harmony to ethical and anthropological investigations.
	republika.pl /peenef2/angielski/hasla/a/aristoxenus.html (691 words)

	Archytas of Tarentum - Cambridge University Press
		Aristoxenus was from Tarentum and began his philosophical career as a Pythagorean, so that it is not a surprise that he should choose to write a life of his countryman, but that choice also reflects the prominence of Archytas.
		Aristoxenus is explicitly named by Athenaeus as the source for the debate on pleasure between Archytas and the Syracusan hedonist, Polyarchus (A9).
		Aristoxenus also reports that the last Pythagoreans whom he knew, in the first half of the fourth century, came from the mainland: Phlius and the Thracian Chalcidice (D.L. It is in contrast to this general eastward movement that Archytas can be described as alone remaining in Italy.
	www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511111886&ss=exc (3175 words)

	Aristoxenus - LoveToKnow 1911
		He was taught first by his father Spintharus, a pupil of Socrates, and later by the Pythagoreans, Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus, from whom he learned the theory of music.
		i., 1898) contains a five-column fragment of a treatise on metre, probably this treatise of Aristoxenus.
		See also W. Mahne, Diatribe de Aristoxeno (Amsterdam, 1 793); B. Brill, Aristoxenus' rhythmische and metrische Messungen (1871); R.'Westphal, GriechischeRhythmik and Harmonik (Leipzig, 1867); L. Laloy, Aristoxene de Tarente et la musique del'antiquiti (Paris,1904).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Aristoxenus (307 words)

	This text is an excerpt from a reprint of the 3rd edition of John Burnet
		Cylon, who is expressly stated by Aristoxenus to have been one of the first men of Croton in wealth and birth, was able to bring about the retirement of Pythagoras to Metapontum, another Achaean city, and it was there that he passed his remaining years.
		Aristoxenus undoubtedly said Pythagoras did not abstain from animal flesh in general, but only from that of the ploughing ox and the ram.
		The explanation is that Aristoxenus had been the friend of the last of the Pythagoreans; and, in their time, the strict observance had been relaxed, except by some zealots whom the heads of the Society refused to acknowledge.
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	Aristoxenus Proposes 72 Tone Equal Temperament
		Aristoxenus, The Harmonics of Aristoxenus, translated by Henry S. Macran, M.A., Oxford At The Clarendon Press, Henry Frowde, M.A., Publisher to the University of Oxford, New York, 1902, p249
		Strictly speaking, that is the interval given by the ratio 9 : 8, or 204 cents.
		But Aristoxenus regards it as being at the same time a unit of which a fourth (properly 498 cents) contains exactly two and a half.
	www.72note.com /aristoxenus/aristoxenus.html (330 words)

	Archytas (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Aristoxenus began his philosophical career as a Pythagorean and studied with the Pythagorean Xenophilus at Athens, so that it is not surprising that his portrayal of Archytas is largely positive.
		Aristoxenus reports that Archytas was never defeated in battle and that, when at one point he was forced to withdraw from his post by the envy of his enemies, the Tarentines immediately suffered defeat (A1).
		Aristoxenus presented a confrontation between the Syracusan hedonist, Polyarchus, and Archytas.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/archytas (13197 words)

	Pythagoreanism
		Aristoxenus reports that two Tarentines, Lysis and Archippus, were the sole survivors when the house of Milo in Croton was burned, during a meeting of the Pythagoreans, by their enemies (Iamblichus, VP 250).
		Aristoxenus is a source for the famous story of the two Pythagorean friends Damon and Phintias, which was set during the tyranny of Dionysius II in Syracuse (367-357).
		Aristoxenus' assertion is probably to be understood as a general claim that, with the deaths of the Pythagoreans from Phlius around the middle of the fourth century, Pythagoreanism as an active movement was dead.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/sum2006/entries/pythagoreanism (19503 words)

	Socrates Symposium
		Guthrie describes Aristoxenus as a "curiously sour character" whose account is gossipy and "bears the marks of malice and scandal" (1971: 70).
		Aristoxenus also reports that there were few men more persuasive than Socrates, that he was easily satisfied and required few material goods, and that he was remarkable in voice, speech, appearance and character.
		Aristoxenus was presenting a rounded view of Socrates that may have been closer to the truth than anything we find in Plato, Aristophanes or Xenophon.
	www.phil.tcu.edu /socrates/abstract.shtml (2976 words)

	Introducing Ancient Greek Philosophy (IAGP)
		Aristoxenus was personally acquainted with the last generation of this school, and mentioned by name Xenophilus the Chalcidian from Thrace, with Phanton, Echecrates, Diocles, and Polymnastus of Phlius.
		Xenophilus was the teacher of Aristoxenus, and lived in perfect health at Athens to the age of a hundred and five.
		Aristoxenus is not likely to have been mistaken with regard to the opinions of the men he had known personally, and Aristotle's statements must have had some foundation.
	faculty.evansville.edu /tb2/courses/phil211/burnet/ch7.htm (7269 words)

	Aristoxenus
		Aristoxenus, of Tarentum (4th century BC) was a Greek peripatetic philosopher, and writer on music and rhythm.
		The only work of his that has come down to us is the three books of the Elements of Harmony, an incomplete musical treatise.
		Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology (Studies in Classics)
	www.abacci.com /wikipedia/topic.aspx?cur_title=Aristoxenus (259 words)

	History of Music Theory
		Ptolemy notes that Aristoxenus “gave no thought to ratio, but defined the genera only by what lies between the notes.” This was most likely because Aristoxenus’s theory allowed for an infinite amount of variation in interval size within each genus, as long as the intervals remained within a certain locus specific to each genus.
		As a corrective measure, Ptolemy tries to bridge the gap between Aristoxenus and Archytas, presenting an interpretation of the enharmonic genus that allegedly appealed to both reason and perception: 5:4, 24:23, 46:45.
		One of Aristoxenus’ achievements was to reduce this infinite number of arrangements into a manageable number of categories.
	historyofmusictheory.blogspot.com (10745 words)

	Archytas of Tarentum
		Archytas of Tarentum, son of Mnesagoras, or of Hestius, according to Aristoxenus, also was a Pythagorean.
		Aristoxenus claims that the philosopher Archytas was never defeated during his command.
		Once, overcome by envy, he had been obliged to resign his command, and his fellow-citizens were immediately conquered.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/archytas.html (1807 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 345 (v. 1)
		Aristoxenus justly blamed them for their contempt of facts, but went into the opposite extreme of allowing too much authority to the decisions of the ear, though without denying the existence of a certain truth in the arithmetical theory (p.
		If he was born in that year, he cannot have been a Selinuntian, as Selinus was not founded till about b.
		But Aristoxenus may perhaps have been among the first settlers at Selinus, and thus have come to be regarded as a Selinuntian.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0354.html (980 words)

	Aristoxenus and PtolemyA look into Greek Music Theory (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristoxenus was certainly one of the most influential thinkers in Athens of the late fourth century B. Aristoxenus marked a turning point in Greek musical theory by being the first to base theory on analysis of musical practice.
		Aristoxenus was concerned with the philosophical definitions and categories necessary to establish a complete and correct view of the musical reality of scales and tonoi, two primary elements of musical composition.
		Aristoxenus stresses the strength of intervals by formulating five distinctions-magnitude, consonant or dissonant, simple or compound, genus, and rational or irrational.
	www.doingmyhomework.com /show_essay/55443.html (431 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 345 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristoxenus justly blamed them for their contempt of facts, but went into the opposite extreme of allowing too much authority to the decisions of the ear, though without denying the existence of a certain truth in the arithmetical theory (p.
		If he was born in that year, he cannot have been a Selinuntian, as Selinus was not founded till about b.
		But Aristoxenus may perhaps have been among the first settlers at Selinus, and thus have come to be regarded as a Selinuntian.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0354.html (980 words)

	Amazon.fr : Aristoxenus's Ghost: An Ancient Metaphysical Mystery Solved: Livres en anglais: Mitzi Dewhitt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her point of departure is the Greek musician, Aristoxenus [c.
		Aristoxenus, the son of a musician, penned a seven-part treatise about music, called Elementa Harmonica.
		Harmonics was the science concerned with the laws of world creation and world maintenance: how they came into existence and how they were organized.
	www.amazon.fr /Aristoxenuss-Ghost-Ancient-Metaphysical-Mystery/dp/1413457894 (787 words)

	The Greeks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristoxenus on the other hand, tended to rely more on reason and intellect as did theorists, for that matter, in the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
		Aristoxenus, incidentally, defined intervals by fractions rather than ratios.
		Aristoxenus combined aspects of both views in his Rhythmic Elements.
	www.depts.ttu.edu /music/theory/secondary/lecture1.html (721 words)

	Diogenes Laertius, Life of Pythagoras, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		Aristoxenus asserts that Pythagoras derived the greater part of his ethical doctrines from Themistoclea, the priestess at Delphi.
		Aristoxenus, however, affirms that he permitted the eating of all other animals, and only abstained from oxen used in agriculture, and from rams.
		And the last of the Pythagoreans, whom Aristoxenus knew, were Xenophilus, the Chalcidean, from Thrace; and Phanton, the Phliasian, and Echurates, and Diodes, and Polymnestus, who were also Phliasians, and they were disciples of Philolaus and Eurytus, of Tarentum.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlpythagoras.htm (5753 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Aristoxenus of Tarentum(364 BCE-304 BCE)
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	Aristoxenus Biography / Profile
		Aristoxenus (ar-ihs-TAWK-see-nuhs), born in Tarentum, was a Greek philosopher and music theorist who flourished during the fourth century b.c.e.
		He later studied with Lamprus of Erythrae, of whom little is known.
		In time Aristoxenus moved to Athens, where he studied with the Pythagorean Xenophilus—important in view of the position he was to take in his theoretical treatises.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/aristoxenus (121 words)

	SAL Fall 1999: Week 6 Text "Theories Concerning the Soul"
		Aristoxenus adhered to his theory, and yet its real significance and value had long before been stated and explained by Plato.
		Xenocrates denied that the soul has form or anything corresponding to body, but said that it consists of number, which, as Pythagoras had already taught, is the greatest force in nature.
		M. I regard the course which you propose as the more suitable; for reason will show that, whichever of the opinions that I have named may be true, death is either no evil, or--still more--is a good.
	www.uah.edu /student_life/organizations/SAL/readings/1999/fall/Week6.html (1375 words)

	Bill Alves - The Just Intonation System of Nicola Vicentino (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The reevaluation of the sources to which Vicentino refers, especially Ptolemy, Aristoxenus, and Boethius, had become very controversial in the first half of the sixteenth century.
		Ptolemy wrote that the best systems are those in which sense and mathematics agree, and such agreements to him were primarily superparticular just ratios.
		Aristoxenus, though, presented an even more radical viewpoint, that the musician's ear should be the ultimate arbiter.
	www2.hmc.edu /~alves/vicentino.html (2833 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Aristoxenus compared the disagreements about the number and pitch of the tonoi to the disparities between the calendars of Corinth and Athens.
		The section on harmonics is based largely on the eclectic 4th century Greek author Aristedes Quintitlanus, who mixed theoretical concepts derived from Aristoxenus with Neoplatonic ideas.
		There is little that is original in the music treatise: Boethius complied it from Greek sources, mainly a lengthy treatise by Nichomachus and the first book of Ptolemy's Harmonics.
	www.iclassics.com /periodArticle?contentId=3036 (2699 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Muses' return
		One of these theoretical works is by Aristoxenus, a pupil of Aristotle.
		Last summer in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Yatromanolakis discovered an unpublished work that follows Aristoxenus' views on music and harmonics; he is now editing it for publication.
		Yatromanolakis has studied these and numerous other written texts, examined vase paintings for clues about the place of music in Greek society, and probed the remains of ancient instruments in the hope of constructing modern equivalents.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/05.17/03-muses.html (1260 words)

	DePauw University
		My goal is to write a book-length study on the fragments of the Greek philosopher Aristoxenus which deal with the history of philosophy.
		Aristoxenus (370-300 B.C.) is not as famous a name as Plato or Aristotle, but he was an important figure in the golden age of Greek philosophy.
		I will carry out a book length study of the fragments of Aristoxenus' The Pythagorean Sayings, in order to determine what they can tell us about the Pythagorean ethical system and its relation to Platonic and Aristotelian ethics and in order to evaluate Aristoxenus as a historian of philosophy.
	www.depauw.edu /admin/acadaffairs/facdev/facultyawards/facfellow00-03.asp (3104 words)

	Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology by Sophie Gibson - 041597061X
		Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology by Sophie Gibson - 041597061X
		Aristoxenus of Tarentum and the Birth of Musicology
		Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity.
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