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Reconstructing Damon : music, wisdom teaching, and politics in Perikles' Athens /

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Fifth-century Athens' most important music theorist and the teacher and political counselor of Perikles, Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Called by Isokrates the most...

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Main Author: Wallace, Robert W., 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Damon, > approximately 500 B.C.-
Musicologists > Greece > Athens.
Music, Greek and Roman > History and criticism.
Music > Political aspects > Greece > History > To 1500.
Music > Social aspects > Greece > History > To 1500.
Music > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
Damon, > Atheniensis, > v5. Jh.
Musiktheorie.
Griechenland.

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