ABSTRACT
In the Harmonics Aristoxenus divides the sphere of music into smaller areas of investigation, including rhythm, metre and instruments. 1 While nothing remains from any writings on metrics and little on instruments, a substantial fragment does exist from the treatise on rhythmics which is the subject of the present chapter. The Rhythmics offers an obvious counterpart to the work on harmonics and, since Aristoxenus is consistent in many methodological techniques across both treatises, their temporal and intellectual relationship must be discussed.
