Product Description: The literary flair of fin-de-siècle Vienna lived on after 1918 in the First Austrian Republic even as writers grappled with the consequences of a lost war and the vanished Habsburg Empire. Reacting to historical and political issues often distinct from those in Weimar Germany, Austrian literary culture, though frequently associated with Jewish writers deeply attached to the concept of an independent Austria, reflected the republic's ever-deepening antisemitism and the growing clamor for political union with Germany...read more

Product Description: The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. It was the most important branch of Greek musical theory, studied by philosophers, mathematicians and astronomers as well as by musical specialists...read more

Product Description: This book examines, for the first time, the scientific procedures devised by Ptolemy (second century AD) for investigating the structures underlying musical melody, a project that he conceived as closely related to astronomy. Ptolemy's account of his methods is unusually explicit, and he pursues them faithfully...read more

Product Description: This second volume of Greek Musical Writings contains important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory, illustrating the progress of these sciences from their beginnings in the sixth century BC over the subsequent thousand years. Writers represented include Philolaus, Plato, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Aristoxenus, Ptolemy, Aristides, Archytas, and Quintilianus...read more

Product Description: Eight new studies on one of the most challenging of Plato's works involving, in mythical form, his views on cosmology, and on the human body and soul. The philosopher's contribution to mathematics and his conception of 'God' are discussed in detail in a book that restores to its proper place a problematic dialogue often dismissed by scholars...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The miniaturist Peter Altenberg (1859-1919) is a seminal but often neglected figure in the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna and in twentieth-century Modernism. Altenberg has suffered neglect both because he failed to work in so-called 'major' genres and on account of his addiction to drugs, alcohol, and young girls, yet his marginal status belies his wide impact across a broad spectrum of the arts...read more

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Product Description: This book is the first of two volumes offering a selection of Greek writings on music, newly translated into English and equipped with an extensive commentary. This volume contains passages from Greek poets, historians and essayists, evoking or describing aspects of the practical activities of musical performance and composition, together with excerpts from philosophers and social critics who comment on the moral, education and aesthetic dimensions of the art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is the first of two volumes offering a selection of Greek writings on music, newly translated into English and equipped with an extensive commentary. This volume contains passages from Greek poets, historians and essayists, evoking or describing aspects of the practical activities of musical performance and composition, together with excerpts from philosophers and social critics who comment on the moral, education and aesthetic dimensions of the art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)