Note 2 — § 10. Aristoxenus.

It is foreign to our purpose to discuss the critical problems presented by the text of Aristoxenus. Of the three extant books the first is obviously a distinct treatise, and should probably be entitled peri archôn. The other two books will then bear the old title harmonika stoicheia. They deal with the same subjects, for the most part, as the first book, and in the same order,—a species of repetition of which there are well-known instances in the Aristotelian writings. The conclusion is abrupt, and some important topics are omitted. It seems an exaggeration, however, to describe the Harmonics of Aristoxenus as a mere collection of excerpts, which is the view taken by Marquard (Die harmonischen Fragmente des Aristoxenus, pp. 359-393). See Westphal's Harmonik und Melopöie der Griechen (p. 41, ed. 1863), and the reply to Marquard in his Aristoxenus von Tarent (pp. 165-170). is not given in the Harmonics which we have: but we find there what is in some respects more valuable, namely, a vivid account of the state of things in respect of tonality which he observed in the music of his time.