QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. What was the Greek use of the term Octave; “Dorian Octave,” for example? What change did Claudius Ptolemy suggest? What confusion resulted? What is the meaning of the prefix “Hyper”? Explain the Greek Chromatic Scale. Explain the Greek Enharmonic Scale. What was the standard Greek musical instrument? What names were given to modifications of it? What instruments were comprehended under the term _Aulos_? How were the instruments used in accompanying the voice? What is meant by “magadizing”? Give an account of Greek musical notation. Did the Greeks use “Harmony” as we understand that term? Name some musical terms that come from the Greek. Berlioz gives the characters of different keys in his book on Instrumentation. “Auld Lang Syne” is a pentatonic melody, scale of F, with fourth and seventh omitted. Any series of five notes on the black keys of the piano will make a pentatonic scale, major character. The language of music was determined by scholars, hence the use of so many terms with Greek and Latin roots. LESSON V. ECCLESIASTICAL SYSTEM. =Rome the New Centre=.—The Power that rules in the affairs of men seems to have made provision for the elevation of the whole race by diffusing at intervals of centuries, the treasures of art, science and thought accumulated by a nation of unusual power and energy. Egypt dominated the northern part of Africa, the shores of the Mediterranean and the western slopes of Asia Minor, and in course of time yielded to the advance of the Greeks, but leaving behind, as a legacy, much that has had enduring value. What had once been centred in one nation, under the control of one caste, the priests, was spread through much of the known world. Greece, in turn, shaped the destinies of expanding civilization. In the Greek social life free art played a great part; wherever the Greeks went as merchants and colonists, they carried with them the principles of Greek art, including music. Greek musicians were accounted stars of the first magnitude in Egypt, in the Greek colonies of Italy, and later in Rome, which, after the fall of Greece as a political factor, became the political, social and artistic centre of the world; through her conquests and subsequent colonizing diffusing throughout a larger world than Egypt and Greece knew, an increased wealth of thought and action which greatly influenced later generations.