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Early instruments played by the
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Aulos (pipe, used in worship of Dionysus), Lyre (seven strings, associated with Apollo), Kithara (Large lyre, used for processions).
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Influential writings on the effects and usages in music of Greek era were...
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passages from Plato's "Republic and Timaeus" and Aristotle's "Politics".
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Founder of Greek music theory was...
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Pythagoras (d. ca. 500 B.C.)
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"Melos" , that is music as a performing arts, is defined as a blend of text, rhythm, and "harmonia" in...
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Plato's "Republic"
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The general concept of "Harmonia" is...
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the unification of parts as an orderly whole: musical sounds and rhythm being ordered by numbers
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stint
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v. be thrifty; set limits
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n. a five-year stint in Hong Kong
v. He didn't stint on the special effects. |
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The earliest theoretical works...
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Harmonic Elements and Rhythmic Elements (ca 33 BC) by Aristoxenus, pupil of Aristotle
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Later Greek theoretical writers include...
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Cleonides (ca. 2nd or 3rd century AD), Ptolemy, and Aristides Quintilianus
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What is a tetrachord?
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Four notes bound by a perfect fourth.
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Three genera (classes) of tetrachord are...
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defined by the second and third pitches: Diatonic (tone - semitone - tone) Chromatic (minor third - semitone - semitone) Enharmonic (major third - quartertone - semitone)
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Greater Perfect System
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Tetrachords put together to form a two-octave range (Tetrachords with common outer notes are conjunct, with a tone between them are disjunct)
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Four tetrachord names in the Greater Perfect System
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1) Meson: the tetrachord beginning with mese(middle note) and descending. 2) Diezeugmenon (disjunct): beginning a tone above mese and ascending 3.Hypaton (conjunct): the tetrachord below Meson. 4. Hyperbolaion (conjunct): the tetrachord above Diezeugmenon
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Species
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The way that perfect consonances could be divided
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