Vol. 31 No. 3 (2005): XXXI - 2005, fascicolo 3
Articoli

Pitágoras en la herrería: variaciones sobre un episodio legendario

Published 2014-04-14

Keywords

  • Pythagoras,
  • Greek music,
  • harmonic canons,
  • Aristoxenus,
  • Macrobius

Abstract

On the many versions of an anecdote on Pythagoras, who reportedly discovered the “kanon” as a way to estimate musical intervals, while going by a blacksmith workshop.