Aristoxenus
Sign in to savethumb|200px|A modern imagining of the appearance of Aristoxenus. Aristoxenus of Tarentum (; born 375, fl. 335 BC) was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony (Greek: ; Latin: Elementa harmonica), survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter. The Elements is the chief source of our knowledge of ancient Greek music.
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- Born
- 360 BCE
- Died
- 300 BCE
- Works
- 19
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- Aristoxenoy Armonika Stoicheia
- Aristoxenus of Tarentum : The Pythagorean Precepts : How to Live a Pythagorean Life
- Aristoxenou Harmonikōn Ta Sōzomena: Die Harmonischen Fragmente Des Aristoxenus (German Edition)
- Elementa harmonica
- Aristoxeni musici antiquiss. Harmonicorum elementorum libri III. Cl. Ptolem©Œi Harmonicorum, seu de musica lib. III. Aristotelis De obiecto auditus fragmentum ex Porphyrii commentariis
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- Born
- 354 BCE
- Died
- 300 BCE
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- male
- Place of birth
- Taras
- Place of death
- Athens
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- music theorist
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
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11 sectionsContents
- Life
- Overview of his works
- ''Elementa harmonica''
- On rhythmics and metrics
- Other works
- Editions and translations
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|200px|A modern imagining of the appearance of Aristoxenus. Aristoxenus of Tarentum (; born 375, fl. 335 BC) was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher, and a pupil of Aristotle. Most of his writings, which dealt with philosophy, ethics and music, have been lost, but one musical treatise, Elements of Harmony (Greek: ; Latin: Elementa harmonica), survives incomplete, as well as some fragments concerning rhythm and meter. The Elements is the chief source of our knowledge of ancient Greek music.
==Life== Aristoxenus was born at Tarentum (in modern-day Apulia, southern Italy) in Magna Graecia, and was the son of a learned musician named Spintharus (otherwise Mnesias). He learned music from his father, and having then been instructed by Lamprus of Erythrae and Xenophilus the Pythagorean, he finally became a pupil of Aristotle, whom he appears to have rivaled in the variety of his studies.
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4th-century BC Greek philosophersAncient Greek biographersAncient Greek ethicistsAncient Greek musicologistsAncient Greek music theoristsAncient Greek philosophers of artAncient TarantinesMetic philosophers in Classical AthensNatural philosophersPeripatetic philosophersPhilosophers of Magna GraeciaPhilosophers of music