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The rise of music in the ancient world, East and West

by Curt Sachs

1943 324 pages eng

It is an exciting story, how music bas for thousands o£ years been held in balance between the basic facts that, on the one hand, sound is vibration o£ matter ruled by mathematical ratios and that, on the other hand, musical art works are immateriaI, indeed, irrational. And a still greater f…

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