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ISBN: | 9781317547983 1317547985 9781317547976 1317547977 9781315730127 131573012X 9781844652662 1844652661 9781844652679 (paperback) 184465267X (paperback)
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on print version record
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Summary: | J.B. Kennedy argues that Plato''s dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a hidden musical structure and that wise philosophers would be able to hear this harmony of the spheres. Kennedy shows that Plato gave his dialogues a similar, hidden musical structure. He divided each dialogue into twelve parts and inserted symbols at each twelfth to mark a musical note. These passages are relatively harmonious or dissonant, and so traverse the ups and downs of a known musical scale
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Other form: | Print version: Kennedy, J. B. Musical structure of plato's dialogues. Routledge 2014 9781844652679
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