Alypius of Alexandria was a Greek writer on music who flourished c. 360. Of his works, only a small fragment has been preserved, under the title of "Εισαγωγη Μουσικη" ("Introduction to Music"); it was printed with the tables of notation in the "Antiquae Musicae Scriptores" of Marcus Meibomius, (in quarto, Amsterdam 1652). Meibomius not only made use of the manuscript belonging to Joseph Scaliger, … Wikipedia
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