new webpage: Philolaus

AFAIK, up until now, Philolaus (Greek, c.400s BC)
has been little more than a footnote in the history
of tuning-theory.

The extremely scanty amount of his work which survives
is probably the reason why he is so little remembered.
However, his work is the earliest technical description
of tuning which has come down to us from ancient Greece,
so it is important.

Philolaus's work does not survive as a whole ... the
main part of it comes from Boethius's two short
commentaries.

I have examined these in detailed, and made a webpage
about Philolaus's divisions of the tone and semitone:

http://tonalsoft.com/enc/index2.htm?philolaus.htm

as always with me, there is much speculation, including
a rendering of an entire reference tetrachord divided
two different ways, according to both of Philolaus's
descriptions.

-monz