RT Article
T1 Al-Fārābī’s Conception of Music Theory as the Universal Science of Melody
JF Oriens
VO 51
IS 1/2
SP 104
OP 126
A1 Laywine, Alison 1963-
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1854864378
AB Al-Fārābī conceived of music theory as a universal science of melody whose task is to determine the whole range of what is musically possible. It does not restrict itself to codifying the conventions of any particular musical idiom. In this, it is akin to logic – the universal science of all things thinkable, which does not reduce to the grammar of any given natural language.
K1 Grammar
K1 Logic
K1 Music Theory
K1 Ptolemy
K1 Al-Fārābī
DO 10.1163/18778372-12340023