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Aristoxenus of Tarentum
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Aristoxenus of Tarentum (lived 4th century BC)

Greek philosopher. His treatise Harmonics (on acoustics and music theory) is based on the music practice of his day rather than being purely speculative.



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Many writings remained in manuscript during his lifetime: a treatise on counterpoint (edited by Frieder Rempp in 1980) and various discourses on the use of dissonances, the enharmonic genus, the unison, forms of the octave, and the tuning systems of Pythagoras, Aristoxenus, and Ptolemy (edited and translated by Claude V.
de Vincenzo Galilei by Blackburn, Bonnie J. / Renaissance Quarterly
Nec tamen ca cautela vitare potuit quin aliqui perinde quasi non recte spreti ab eo atque posthabiti offenderentur, quorum unus Aristoxenus fuisse creditur, ur postea scriptis eius deprehensum est.
Leonardo Bruni and Biography: The Vita Aristotelis by Ianziti, Gary / Renaissance Quarterly
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