The ethical power of music: Ancient Greek and Chinese thoughts

Journal of Aesthetic Education

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-104

  Wang, Yuhwen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 60950006329     PISSN: 00218510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3527365     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. For discussions of Plato and Damon on music, consult, for example, M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), esp. chap. 8
2. and Enrico Fubini, The History of Music Aesthetics, trans. Michael Hatwell (London: Macmillan, 1990), part 1
3. For the authorship and date of the Yue Ji, see, for example, Scott Cook, "Yue Ji -Record of Music: Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Commentary," Asian Music 26, no. 2 (1995): 2-3
4. and Wang Meng-Ou, Li Ji Jiao Zheng [Examination on Li Ji] (Taipei: Yi Wen Publisher, 1976), 268
5. and Sun Yao-Nian, "Yue Ji Zuo Zhe WenTi Kao Bian" [Examination in the Authorship of Yue Ji], in Yue Ji Lun Bian [Debates on Yue Ji] (Beijin: Ren Min Yin Yue, 1983), 148-75
6. For interpretations of Yue Ji, see Wang Meng-Ou, Li Ji Jin Zha Jin Yi [Contemporary Connotation and Interpretation of the Li Ji], vol. 2 (Taipei: Shang Wu Publisher, 1998), 607-52
7. This work will be cited as LJJ in the text with page numbers for all subsequent references. Shi-San Jing Zhu Shu [Interpretations and Explanations of the Thirteen Classics], vol. 5 (Taipei: Yi-Wen Publisher, 1979), Li Ji, 662-708
8. which includes Kong Ying-Da's annotation. This work will be cited as SSJ in the text with volume and page numbers for all subsequent references. For interpretations of Yue Shu, see Zheng Xuan et al., Shi Ji San Jia Zhu [Three Interpretations of Shi Ji], vol. 3 (Taipei: Hong Shi, 1974), 1175-237
9. Long Yu-Chun et al., Bai Hua Shi Ji [Shi Ji in Today's Ordinary Chinese Language], vol. 1 (Taipei: Lian Jing Publisher, 1994), 281-314
10. For English translations of Yue Ji, see Walter Kaufmann, Musical References in the Chinese Classics (Detroit: Information Coordinators, Inc., 1976)
11. and Cook, "Yue Ji," 1-96. In the following discussion, for each excerpt from Yue Ji and Yue Shu, I will adopt what I deem to be the most lucid and appropriate translation from either of these translations, or otherwise provide my own
12. Translation from Kaufmann, Musical References, 38 (Reference 37-II-8)
13. Plato, Republic, 3
14. trans. Paul Shorey, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, vol. 5, The Republic, Books I-V, Loeb Classical Library, vol. 237 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), 400b-c
15. Plato, Laws 701b-c.
16. trans. Lane Cooper et al., in The Collected Dialogues of Plato Including the Letters, ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns (New York: Pantheon Books, 1961), 1294-95
17. Plato, Republic III, 410a-b, 287-95
18. rev. Thomas Mathiesen, in Source Readings in Music History, gen. ed. Oliver Strunk and Leo Treitler (New York: Norton, 1998), 18
19. Confucius, The Analects of Confucius, the Tai Bo Chapter
20. Plato, Republic 424b-c
21. For English translation of these passages, consult References 37-I-17, 37-III-8, 37-III-17 in Kaufmann, Musical References, 34, 42-45
22. See, for instance, Timaeus 35a-48c
23. As Mathiesen indicates, "harmonia" in Plato has a broad sense of an entire complex of relationships among pitches, and may often involve larger universal or cosmic relationships. See also Edward A. Lippman, Musical Thought in Ancient Greece (New York: Columbia University Press, 1964), chap. 1
24. Boethius, De institutione musica, Book I
25. trans. William Strunk, Jr., and Oliver Strunk, in Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History: Antiquity and the Middle Ages (New York: W.W. Norton, 1965), 80
26. Plato, Timaeus 47b-d
27. trans. Jowett in The Collected Dialogues of Plato, 11.75. My italics. In order to be consistent, I have replaced the word "harmony" with "harmonia," as Mathiesen uses the word in the earlier-quoted passages
28. Plato, Timaeus 36c-d
29. trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford in Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus of Plato Translated with a Running Commentary (New York: Humanities Press, 1937) 58-59
30. Plato, Timaeus 36e-37a
31. See also Cornford, Plato's Cosmology, 6
32. Ann E. Mover, Musica Scientia: Musical Scholarship in the Italian Renaissance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 18
33. G.E.R. Lloyd, Demystifying Mentalities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 124
34. This is shown not only in Lloyd's Demystifying Mentalities, but especially in his Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
35. For other comparison and exploration of similarities between ancient Greek and Chinese thinking, see David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (Albany: State University of New York, 1987)
36. David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (Albany: State University of New York, 1995)
37. David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han: Self Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western. Culture (Albany: State University of New York, 1998)
38. Lisa Raphals, Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical. Traditions of China and Greece (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992)
39. and Steven Shankman and Stephen Durrant, The Siren and the Sage: Knowledge and Wisdom in Ancient Greece and China (London: Casseil, 2000)