He touches, for instance, on Plato’s observations concerning music, in the fourth century BCE, without developing the idea; then refers to Claudius Ptolemy’s major treatise Harmonics ...

For their latest partnership, the luxury travel purveyor Rimowa has tapped British abstract artist Ptolemy Mann ... Bauhaus architecture and color theory. Recently, the self-avowed ‘Chromatic ...

This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography as the midpoint ... In the 19th century, researcher Joseph Hager supported this theory based on Tashkent’s proximity to Ptolemy’s mentioned ...

The sudden, massive upheaval of the Norman Conquest in 1066 had a transformative effect on many towns. At Norwich, the imposition of the Norman castle is known to have erased a whole quarter of the ...

Previously, we've published a frankly must-read guide on how to build your knowledge of music theory to make better electronic music. Now, we’re going to round up a few pieces of software that know it ...

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From half diminished chords to phrygian modes; music theory can be both a help and a hindrance to many, but do you really need it in order to be a great musician? When you purchase through links on ...

All of which brings me to an important, if extraordinarily controversial, new book by my former Hunter College colleague, Philip Ewell, a professor of music theory. Entitled On Music Theory and Making ...

The material they discovered appears to be a copy of Claudius Ptolemy’s treatise on a scientific instrument called the meteoroscope. Ptolemy, who was born in 100 CE, was a renowned astronomer ...

Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer of Greek descent, penned during the first century A.D. Written in Greek ...

Ptolemy's Meteoroscope was a tool to calculate ... interdisciplinary figure who did significant work on cartography, music theory, visual perception, even astrology." Jones said that although ...