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How many pieces of greek music survive
45
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who was the god of music
Apollo
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aulos
greek wind instrument
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why was music so important to the greeks?
- communicate w/ gods
- affect morality
- entertainment
- makes soul sensitive
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four uses of music in greek society
- public religious festivals
- music in theatre
- private festivities: the symposium
- music in edu
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dithyramb
wild, passionate shouts in honor of dionysus
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Stasimon chorus from Orestes
- composed by Euripides
- papyrus
- fragments
- 7 lines
- sung by chorus (everyone)
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tetrachord
- four note units
- outer notes fixed
- inner moveable
- two successive tetrachords for octave
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lowest pitch
proslambanomenos
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aristoxenus
- methods of observations and classification
- through boethius defined nature of musical intervals, consonance, dissonance, scales
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Greek perfect system
two octave scale
four types of tetrachord and proslambanomenos
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aspects of greek music passed on to west
- sys of consonance and dissonance
- sys of recognizing octave duplication/dividing each octave into 7 pitches
- concept of scale patterns
- sys of tuning (lasted until 15th c)
- musical terms such as tetrachord, diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic
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aspects passed to middle ages and later abandoned
- notation symbols abandoned in 19th c
- microtones
- music of the spheres
- belief that music is quantitative
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aspects of music not passed on
- musical repertoire
- musical staff/clefs
- instruments
- musical rhythm
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music of the spheres
when the stars/planets rotated in balanced proportions and made heavenly music
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basic unit of time in greek music
chronos
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