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It is an exciting story, how music has for thousands of years been held in balance between the basic facts that, on the one hand sound is vibration of matter ruled by mathematical ratios and that, on the other hand, musical art works are immaterial, indeed, irrational. In studying this first attempt at a synthesis, the reader should not forget that this book treats the rise of music in the ancient world and consequently in little concerned with the practice, the conceptions and the misconceptions of medieval and modern Oriental music, except in so far as they throw light on antiquity. Nor should he forget at what disadvantage such an attempt is placed by the incompleteness of our sources both musical and extramusical.
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ISBN : 9788121263085
Pages : 336
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