Table of contents for Scientific method in Ptolemy's Harmonics / Andrew Barker.


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1. Introduction
2. Reason and perception
3. Pitch and quantity
4. The ratios of the concords: (1) The Pythagoreans
5. The ratios of the concords: (2) Ptolemy's hupotheseis
6. Critique of Aristoxenian principles and conclusions
7. Ptolemy on the harmonic divisions of his predecessors
8. Melodic intervals: hupotheseis, derivations and adjustments
9. Larger systems: modulations in music and in method
10. The instruments
11. The tests
12. Harmonics in a wider perspective.


Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Ptolemy, 2nd cent, Harmonics, Music theory History To 500, Science, Ancient