Musical writers of ancient Greece

This volume made up a variety of books about music in the mainly late era: "" Plutarch, Cleonida, Alipia, anonyms of Belllerman, Bakhiya, Gaudeniy, Nicomach, Theon of Smirnsky and "Euclid (the authorship of the first and latter is currently disputed) They are connected by one subject - music as a special area of ​​knowledge - and the desire to introduce the reader to the basics of the sciences included in it: harmonics and rhythm. A variety of topics are also affected: from the history and background of the emergence of musical life to the description of the notation system, the doctrine of the connection of sounds and numbers, intervals and mathematical relations, sounds and celestial bodies.
Many texts are translated from the ancient Greek language into Russian for the first time.
The publication is addressed to musicologists, students of music universities and all those who are interested in ancient culture