Music In Antiquity (Module 8)

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Aristotle

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Philosopher, wrote "Politics", Greek (384 BC)

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Aristoxenus

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Philosopher, pupil of Aristotle, (335 BC), Elementa Harmonica and Elementa Rhythmica

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Harmonia

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relationships among pitches, unification of parts in an orderly whole

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Plato

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Philosopher, wrote Republic, Greek (428-348 BC)

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Pythagoras

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Founded Greek music theory, additive rhythm

eighth=1

quarter=2

dotted quarter=3

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Apollo

Dionysus

Orpheus

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God of Light

God of fertility and wine

God, Greek, practicer of music

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Cleonides

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Writer- Species of fourth (1st century BC)

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Species of Fourth

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STT, TTS, TST

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Species of fifth

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STTT TTTS TTST TSTT

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Species of Octave

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Ancient greek modes-- Mixolydian, lydian, phrygian, dorian, hypolydian, Hypophrygian,n Hypodorian

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Tonos/Tonoi

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Modes, based on ancient Greek places

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Iastian

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Calm, peaceful, (mysterious), neutral

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Epitaph of Seikilos (1st Century BC)

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Enheduanna

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Akkadian Priestess, composed hymns to the moon (2300 BC), hymns survived as poetry

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Euripides

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Writer of Orestes, Greek

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Claudius Ptolemy

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Writer

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Aristides Quintilianus

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Writer

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Doctrine of Ethos

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Ethos: A set of behaviors/emotions that go into someone's character

*plato and aristotle

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Doctrine of Imitation

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If you listen to music, that music will affect how you act

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Ethos

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Ethical Character, way of being/behaving

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Greater perfect system

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2 tetrachords and 1 lowest note

(super fancy names for things, hyperbolaion, diezugmenon, mese, meson, hypaton...)

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Harmony of the Spheres

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Greek model of the universe, geocentric

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Heterophony

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Lines being played differently

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Monophony

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Single melodic line

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Polyphony

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Multiple lines

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Tetrachord

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four notes spanning a P4

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Enharmonic

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Top interval=2 tones, bottom intervals 1/4 tones

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Chromatic

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Top interval= tone and a half, other semitones

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Conjunct

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tetrachords that share a note

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Diatonic

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Two whole tones, semitones

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Disjunct

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Tetrachords that don't share a note

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Divje Babe Flute

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Found in Slovenia in 1995

30,000-60,000 years old

Is broken, nobody knows how big it was

imitating bird song?

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Antiquity

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Old! Umbrella term for

ancient near east, classical antiquity, late antiquity

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Ancient near east

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3500 BC-500 BC

Mesopotamia

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Classical Antiquity

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500 BC-400 CE

Greeks

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Late antiquity

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400CE- 700 CE

Romans

Empire expanded to England, Spain, Morocco, Iraq

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Ancient near east empires

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Akkadian

Egyptian

Sumerians

Babelonians

Phoenicians

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Bull lyre

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Sumerian, 2500 BC

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Babylon

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1200-1300 BC

First writing that has survived

knowledge about theory, tuning, etc

Baked clay tablet discovered- lyrics on top, music on bottom

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Melos

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Horizontal dimension of Greek music (melody, musical line)

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Perfect melos

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music+text+dance

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Ode

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Trajedy

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Hymn

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Pythagorean tuning

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octave 2:1

fifth 3:2

fourth 4:3

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Proslambanomenos

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note added at the end to complete scale

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Mese

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Middle pitch

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*lesser perfect system

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Aulos

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double flute

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lyre

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small harp

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Kitara

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Virtuoso instrument, expensive, large

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Diatonic intervals

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W W ST

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Chromatic Intervals

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m3 ST ST

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Enharmonic

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M3, 1/4, 3/4

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Greek notation

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Review notes!