DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
in Association with Project Theophrastus

Aristoxenus:
Music, Biography, and Philosophy
in the Early Peripatetic School

Preliminary Program

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Aristoxenus: Music, Biography, and Philosophy in the Early Peripatetic School

 

September 10-12, 2009 - De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. In association with Project Theophrastus

 

All sessions will be held in the DePauw Memorial Student Union, Room 240 (the boardroom).

 

 

Thursday, September 10

 

 

Session 1:  9:00 AM- 10:30 AM

 

Stefan Schorn (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Aristoxenus and Peripatetic Biography

 

 

10:30-10:45 Break

 

 

Session 2: 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM

 

Carl Huffman (DePauw University, Greencastle, USA) - Aristoxenus' Life of Socrates

 

 

Lunch and Break  12:15- 2:15

 

 

Session 3: 2:30- 4:00

 

Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham, England) – Aristoxenus mousikos and the Early Academy

 

 

4:00-4:15 Break

 

 

Session 4: 15 – 5:45

 

John Dillon (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) – Aristoxenus’ Life of Plato

 

 

Dinner 7:00- 9:00 (At Little Mexico in Crawfordsville, IN. Vans leave at 6:30 from the Walden Inn).

 

 

Friday, September 11

 

 

Session 5:  9:00 AM- 10:30 AM

 

William W. Fortenbaugh (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA) - Apollonius on Theophrastus on Aristoxenus

 

 

10:30-10:45 Break

 

 

Session 6: 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM

 

Antonella Provenza (University of Palermo, Italy) - Aristoxenus and Music Therapy: Fr. 26 Wehrli Within the Tradition on Music and katharsis.

 

 

Lunch and Break  12:15- 2:15

 

 

 

Session 7: 2:15- 3:45

 

David Creese (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) – Instruments and empiricism in Aristoxenus’ Elementa harmonica

 

 

3:45- 4:00 Break

 

 

Session 8: 4:00-5:30

 

Eleonora Rocconi (University of Pavia, Italy) - Aristoxenus and the Theory of Musical Ethos

 

 

Dinner 7:00- 9:00 (At the house of Carl Huffman and Martha Rainbolt, 707 E. Seminary Street – 5 blocks to the right down the street in front of the hotel)

 

 

Saturday, September 12

 

 

Session 9:  9:00 AM- 10:30 AM

 

Stephen White (University of Texas, Austin, USA) – Aristoxenus’ Presentation of Pythagoras

 

 

10:30-10:45 Break

 

 

 

Session 10: 10:45 AM- 12:15 PM

 

Timothy Power (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA) – Aristoxenus and the Neoclassicists

 

 

Lunch and Break  12:15-2:15

 

 

 

Session 11: 2:15- 3:45

 

Leonid Zhmud (Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Aristoxenus and the Pythagoreans

 

3:45- 4:00 Break

 

 

Session 12: 4:00 – 5:30

 

Elisabetta Matelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy) – Aristoxenus on Dance

 

 

Dinner 7:00- 9:00 (In the Emerald Room (upstairs) at Almost Home on the square in Greencastle).