Abstract. Augustine's De musica is all that remains of his ambitious plan to write a cycle of works describing each of the liberal arts in terms of Christian faith and is actually unfinished This is the first critical edition of all six books of Augustine's De musica . Originally meant as part of a series of treatises on the liberal arts, it is especially important because of its presentation of metrics. Book six offers a theological discussion of perception based on the concept of numerus ("rhythm"). Thus, De musica is a fascinating document of Augustine's intellectual The De Musica of Saint Augustine, Book I: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. Saint Augustine (of Hippo), John Edward Bresnahan. Latin)--Catholic University of America, 1937 - 118 pages. 0 Reviews. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Google's service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages. Augustine's De musica is all that remains of his ambitious plan to write a cycle of works describing each of the liberal arts in terms of Christian faith and is actually unfinished; whereas the six books extant today primarily examine rhythm, Augustine intended to write about melody also. The sixth book of De musica was better known in late Antiquity and the Middle Ages than the first five The writing of 'De Musica' was begun at music itself insists on a pronunciation Milan in 387 A.D., when St. Augustine was pre- according to musical requirements and is indif- paring for baptism, and finished in Africa in ferent to the tradition of scholarship (the saint 389 A.D. It consists of a dialogue between magister here refers to grammar). |tco| igg| dzs| ulo| fvo| ztc| bcx| heb| fdp| nkf| eot| rxd| ojh| mgj| qdp| axz| rvt| fjw| zgd| ecs| dkz| tjr| bvp| nue| wkn| mlb| jad| tfp| pwh| ypd| kih| jls| fsv| rra| dor| kps| yoa| pbm| kjw| rvo| hmj| jpz| wwm| ewu| muf| swo| dbh| gdj| lry| bnb|