The Modes of Ancient Greek MusicMonro, D. B. (David Binning)
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The Modes of Ancient Greek Music
Monro, D. B. (David Binning)
Music, Greek and Roman
_Rhetoric_, iii. 1, p. 1403 b 27 ([Greek: tonos] and
[Greek: harmonia]), 15
Aristoxenus (ed. Meib.):
_Harm._ p. 2, l. 15 (diagrams of [Greek: harmoniai]), 49
p. 3 (melody of speech), 115
p. 6 (nomenclature by [Greek: thesis] or position), 81
p. 6, l. 20 (species of the Octave), 50
p. 8 (speaking and singing), 115
p. 8, l. 12 (perfect System), 36
p. 18 (melody of speech), 90, 115
p. 23 (Chromatic and Enharmonic), 110
p. 26, l. 14 (Lichanos indefinite), 110
p. 27, l. 34 (diagrams), 52
p. 36, l. 29 (seven [Greek: harmoniai]), 51, 54
p. 37 ([Greek: tonoi] or keys), 17-19
p. 48, l. 13 (Lichanos indefinite), 110
p. 69, l. 6 (nomenclature by position), 81
_ibid._ (indefinite element in music), 111
Bacchius (ed. Meib.), p. 11 (topoi tês phônês), 65
p. 19 (theseis tetrachordôn), 82
Dionysius Hal.:
c. 11, p. 58 Reisk. (accent and melody), 90, 115
c. 11, p. 64 Reisk. (rhythm and quantity), 115
Euclid (ed. Meib.):
_Introductio_, p. 19 (ten-stringed lyre), 38
p. 20 (modulation), 104
_Sectio Canonis_, Prop. xvii, xviii, 123
Euripides, _Orest._ 338-343 (musical setting), 92, 130
Heraclides Ponticus ap. Athen. xiv. pp. 624-626 (modes), 9-11, 76
Lasus ap. Athen. xiv. p. 624 _e_ ([Greek: Aiolis harmonia]), 6
Nicomachus (ed. Meib), p. 4 (speaking and singing), 115
p. 7 (heptachord scales), 34
Pausanias, iv. 27, 4 (Sacadas and Pronomus), 75
Pherecrates ap. Plut. _de Mus._ c. 30, 38
Pindar, _Nem._ iv. 45 (Lydian), 7
Plato:
_Phileb._ p. 17 ([Greek: harmonia] = System), 55
_Laches_, p. 188 (Dorian, Ionian, Phrygian, Lydian), 8
_Repub._ p. 398 (use of modes in education), 7, 8
p. 399 ([Greek: aulos--poluchordia])., 39, 41
p. 531 A (study of music), 53, 123
_Laws_, p. 669 (instrumental music), 120
p. 812 D (harmony), 122
Plutarch:
_De Musica_, c. 6 ([Greek: harmoniai]), 25
cc. 15-17 (Platonic modes), 21-25, 103
c. 19 ([Greek: tonos, harmonia]), 26
_De gener. Mundi_, p. 1029 _c_ (Proslambanomenos), 39
Pollux, _Onom._ iv. 78 ([Greek: harmoniai aulêtikai]), 22, 28
Pratinas ap. Athen. xiv. p. 624 _f_ ([Greek: mête syntonon k.t.l.]), 5
Ptolemy:
Harm. i. 13 (musical ratios of Archytas), 123
i. 16 ([Greek: hêgemôn]=highest note), 45
_ibid._ (scales of the cithara), 84-86, 102, 123
_ibid._ (Pythagorean division), 87
ii. 6 (modulation), 67
ii. 7 (pitch of scales), 80
ii. 16 (scales of the cithara), 84-86, 102
Seikelos inscription, 89, 132
Telestes ap. Athen. xiv. p. 625 _f_ (Phrygian and Lydian), 6
Theon Smyrnaeus, c. 8 (enlargement of scale), 37
THE END
_Note on the Seikilos Inscription_ (pp. 89-91, 133).
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