Arte sonora

That the origin of Western culture dates back to classical Greece is something that everyone knows. The role that music played in that Hellenic universe is, on the other hand, much more unknown. Santiago Auseron explores in this original and highly ambitious essay the relationship between music in archaic and classical Greece with poetry, myth, philosophy, logos and clairvoyance. It addresses the link between harmony, rhythm and melody with the word, the connection between language and music, the union and division of the visual and musical arts, the relevance of music from Homer to Plato, including the treatise on harmony of Aristoxeno... The book starts, in the author's own words, from "the concern to discover the trail of musical sonorities that attended the birth of philosophy".