Music 251A: Early History of Music Theory
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Audio reserves
The term Counterpoint ca. 900-1700's
Counterpoint bibliography, ca. 900-1700 (HTML version)
Counterpoint bibliography, ca. 900-1700 (PDF version)
Summary of Counterpoint Rules, ca. 1100-1530 (HTML version)
Page of links to useful Web sites
Ancient Thought on Harmony
Psalm excerpts
Talmud on harmony of the spheres
Plato on harmony
Plato on music as entertainment versus promoting inner harmony
Cosmology from Plato's Timaeus
Aristotle, On the Heavens
Plotinus on harmony
Augustine on Beauty
Medieval Thought
St. Thomas Aquinas
On diaphony
Marchetto on voice leading