The Modes of Ancient Greek Music

Name: The Modes of Ancient Greek Music
Author: Monro, D. B. (David Binning)

Monro, D. B. (David Binning)

Music, Greek and Roman

§ 17. _Earlier Heptachord Scales._
Seven-stringed scales in the _Problems_--Nicomachus                  33


        § 18. _The Perfect System._
The Greater and Lesser Perfect Systems--Aristoxenus--enlargement
    of the scale--Timotheus--Pronomus--the
    Proslambanomenos--the Hyperhypatê                                35


        § 19. _Relation of System and Key._
The standard System and the 'modes'--the multiplicity of
    [Greek: harmoniai]                                               40


        § 20. _Tonality of the Greek musical scale._
The Mesê as a key-note--the close on the Hypatê--[Greek: archê] in
    the _Metaphysics_                                                42


        § 21. _The Species of a Scale._
The seven Species ([Greek: schêmata, eidê]) of the Octave--connexion
    with the Modes                                                   47

        § 22. _The Scales as treated by Aristoxenus._
Advance made by Aristoxenus--diagrams of the Enharmonic
    genus--reference in Plato's _Republic_--Aristides
    Quintilianus--the _Philebus_                                     48


        § 23. _The Seven Species._
Aristoxenus--the _Introductio Harmonica_                             56


        § 24. _Relation of the Species to the Keys._
Use of the names Dorian, &c.--treatment of musical scales
    in Aristoxenus--Species in the different genera                  58


        § 25. _The Ethos of Music._
Regions of the voice--branches of lyrical poetry--kinds of
    ethos                                                            62


        § 26. _The Ethos of the Genera and Species._
Ethos depending on pitch--on the genus                               66


        § 27. _The Musical Notation._
The instrumental notes--original form and date                       67


        § 28. _Traces of the Species in the Notation._
Westphal's theory                                                    75


        § 29. _Ptolemy's Scheme of Modes._
Reduction of the Modes to seven--nomenclature according
    to _value_ and according to _position_                           78


        § 30. _Nomenclature by Position._
The term [Greek: thesis] in Aristoxenus--in the Aristotelian
    _Problems_                                                       81


        § 31. _Scales of the Lyre and Cithara._
The scales on the lyre--on the cithara (viz. [Greek: tritai, tropoi,
    parypatai, lydia, hypertropa, iastiaioliaia])                    83


        § 32. _Remains of Greek Music._
The hymns of Dionysius and Mesomedes--instrumental
    passages in the _Anonymus_--Mr. Ramsay's inscription--melody
    and accent--fragment of the _Orestes_                            87


        § 33. _Modes of Aristides Quintilianus._
The six Modes of Plato's _Republic_                                  94

        § 34. _Credibility of Aristides Quintilianus._
Date of Aristides--genuineness of his scales                         95

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