The Modes of Ancient Greek Music. D. B. Monro

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       D. B. Monro

      The Modes of Ancient Greek Music

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664608437

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       THE MODES OF ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC.

       § 1. Introductory.

       § 2. Statement of the question.

       § 3. The Authorities.

       § 4. The Early Poets.

       § 5. Plato.

       § 6. Heraclides Ponticus.

       § 7. Aristotle—the Politics.

       § 8. The Aristotelian Problems.

       § 9. The Rhetoric.

       § 10. Aristoxenus.

       § 11. Names of Keys (hypo-) .

       § 12. Plutarch's Dialogue on Music.

       § 13. Modes employed on different Instruments.

       § 14. Recapitulation— harmonia and tonos.

       § 15. The Systems of Greek Music.

       § 16. The Standard Octachord System.

       § 17. Earlier Heptachord Scales.

       § 18. The Perfect System.

       § 19. Relation of System and Key.

       § 20. Tonality of the Greek musical scale.

       § 21. The Species of a Scale.

       § 22. The Scales as treated by Aristoxenus.

       § 23. The Seven Species.

       § 24. Relation of the Species to the Keys.

       § 25. The Ethos of Music.

       § 26. The Ethos of the Genera and Species.

       § 27. The Musical Notation.

       § 28. Traces of the Species in the Notation.

       § 29. Ptolemy's Scheme of Modes.

       § 30. Nomenclature by Position.

       § 31. Scales of the Lyre and Cithara.

       § 32. Remains of Greek Music.

       § 33. Modes of Aristides Quintilianus.

       § 34. Credibility of Aristides Quintilianus.

       § 35. Evidence for Scales of different species.

       § 36. Conclusion.

       § 37. Epilogue—Speech and Song.

       APPENDIX

       INDEX

       THE END

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PREFACE

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      The present essay is the sequel of an article on Greek music which the author contributed to the new edition of Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (London, 1890–91, art. Musica). In that article the long-standing controversy regarding the nature of the ancient musical Modes was briefly noticed, and some reasons were given for dissenting from the views maintained by Westphal, and now very generally accepted. A full discussion of the subject would have taken up more space than was then at the author's disposal, and he accordingly proposed to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to treat the question in a separate form. He has now to thank them for undertaking the publication of a work which is necessarily addressed to a very limited circle.

      The progress of the work has been more than once delayed by the accession of materials. Much of it was written before the author had the opportunity of studying two very interesting documents first made known in the course of last year in the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique and the Philologus,