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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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