Music in the Works of Pythagoras of Samos and the Pythagoreans

The subject of this book, as per the title, is music (from the Greek μουσική τέχνη - musik t chne, i.e. "the art of the muses") in the works of Pythagoras, the first intellectual in the history ofPhilosophy to make that art the center of his worldview, even including it in the so called "Exact Sciences". In order to have better grasp and clarity regarding the intellectual production ofPythagoras, whose written works survived to the 21st century in a very fragmented form and inmuch smaller number, it is necessary to research the historical sources contemporary to thephilosopher, as well as those which succeeded him.