On Music: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 5

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Oxford: Oup in Association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies/Institute of Ismaili Studies (2010)
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This is the first critical edition of a fascinating medieval work on music, written in Iraq in the tenth century. It is accompanied by an English translation and full annotation. The Epistle examines not just the technical, scientific, and mathematical aspects of music, but its cosmic, psychological, and spiritual dimensions

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ML3845.I3813 2010

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9780199593989   0199593981

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