Historical dictionary of sacred music

BOETHIUS, ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS

(c. 480, Rome – c. 524)
Philosopher and statesman, he wrote among many writingsDe Institutione Musica, which after the ninth-century Carolinigian renaissance became the most widely known work of music theory through the late Middle Ages. It is the only work to present Greek music theory comprehensively—modaltheory, tetrachords, Pythagorean consonances and their mathematical underpinnings, monochord division—and thus underlies most subsequent medieval music theory.

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