[Smt-talk] Math-music structure of Plato's Dialogues

[ekotzakidou at aol.com]

To the degree that Dr. Kennedy's conclusions are valid and the product of a sound methodology, I cannot say that I am particularly surprised by his delightful discovery. If we were to set aside the tantalizing claims regarding Plato's political and philosophical affiliations and focus instead on the technical aspect of the discovery, we see that the artistic endeavors of composers like J. S. Bach and Bartok (who, in their case, famously relied on the arithmetic relations dictated by the golden section to shape the flow of their music) has deep roots in the European tradition. As a highly symbolic or simply an aesthetic device, the willful employment of numeric relations transcends the peculiarities of the artistic medium and continues to find meaningful applications in the visual, linguistic and, of course, the musical domain. 

 

 Elisabeth Kotzakidou Pace, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar in Music Theory
Columbia University in the City of New York
Email: ekp5 at columbia.edu



  
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Speaking of cross-discipline. . . 
  
 
  
I may be coming late to this, but I just learned of Dr. Jay   Kennedy at University of Manchester who is publishing his  fascinating   discovery relating Pythagorean math & music theory and stichometry to   hidden formal & symbolic content in Plato's Dialogues:
  
 
  
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/
  
 
  
Any comments?
  
 
  
 
  
Stephen Soderberg
  
Senior Specialist
  
   for Contemporary Music
  
Music Division
  
Library of Congress
  
  

  
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