<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barker,Andrew</style></author></authors><subsidiary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theophrastus Phil. (TLG 0093)</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aristoxenus Mus. (TLG 0088)</style></author></subsidiary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theophrastus and Aristoxenus: confusions in musical metaphysics</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aristosseno</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Platone</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Teofrasto</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">teoria musicale</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2004</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">47</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">101-117</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theophrastus frag. 716 [Fortenbaugh] attacks the thesis that differences between musical pitches are quantitative. Most of its fire-power is directed at harmonic theory in the 'mathematical' or 'Pythagorean' style, but one short passage (lines 108 ff.) is not. Previous commentators have identified its target as Aristoxenus; but I argue that Theophrastus' account does not fit Aristoxenus' position, and that we should look for his target in the work of earlier 'empirical' theorists. After reviewing and rejecting various possibilities, I tentatively suggest that Theophrastus' conception of the empiricists' standpoint may originate in a plausible but probably mistaken interpretation of Republic 531a-b. I then argue that so far from criticizing Aristoxenus' ideas, Theophrastus' polemic make substantial use of them. Finally, I explain how this phase of his discussion returns us to the intriguing questions from which his whole anti-quantitative tirade began. [Theophrastus and Aristoxenus, p. 101]</style></abstract></record></records></xml>