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Ildar,<br>
<br>
Be reassured. If you prefer 19th-century readings of Greek theory to
better informed 20th-century ones, I have nothing to add.<br>
<br>
But I won't accept your disparaging comments about Otto Gombosi,
which are unfair and dishonest. The 1956 Acta musicologica necrology
by John Ward that you quote without giving its reference begins with
the words<br>
<blockquote>"With the death of Otto Gombosi, on February 17, 1955,
musicology lost one of its most original minds. The loss is all
the more tragic for having come so early in his career, before
completion of nearly all the books and editions planned during the
last years of his life."<br>
</blockquote>
Gombosi died at the age of 53. And Ward's statement to which you
refer ("iconoclast") reads:<br>
<blockquote>"Gombosi was an iconoclast. Nothing musicological was
settled for him; whatever had been accomplished in the field
needed, from his point of view, re-examination. To question was as
much a part of his nature as it was to refer all questions back to
the musical evidence."<br>
</blockquote>
And Ward concludes:<br>
<blockquote>"His death leaves his colleagues and students
inestimably poorer and robs musicology of one of its most
adventurous minds. How characteristic of the man that he should
have left a legacy of ideas certain to germinate and cause
arguments and stimulate thought for a long while to come. This is
surely the way he wished it!"<br>
</blockquote>
Now, if you prefer to linger with old ideas and to reject "ideas
certain to stimulate thought for a long while to come" as
"revisionist", so be it. Gombosi was a very attentive (and
competent) reader of ancient Greek theory, and this is what my
previous message was about. Let's stop here, we ain't speaking of
the same things.<br>
<br>
Nicolas Meeùs<br>
University Paris-Sorbonne<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 2013-12-03 13:49, Ildar Khannanov a
écrit :<br>
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<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff;
font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span>[...] As for
Nicolas' fighting with the "19th-century mistakes," this
revisionist activity cannot take us forward. [...] Well, as
for Gombosi, he (as Acta Musicologica describes him) had
scattered ideas, unpublished books and was an iconoclast.
[Etc.]<br>
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