Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Religious Music, Liberal Arts Education, Cornu (Horn)
6 Feb 2013
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Written accounts playing music at weddings, funerals, worship, banquets, public gatherings. Psalms and hymns were sung antiphonally, responsorally, always monophonically. Turn of the 8th century philosophical thought began, including in music eg. democracy, individual rights. Height of greek culture: 5th century b. c. e. Apex of ancient greek cultural thought: philosophy. 45 existing fragments of music from ancient greece. Music used in drama, ceremony and poetry recitation. 3 types (genera) of tetrachords (4 descending notes: diatonic: whole-tone, whole-tone, half-tone eg. a-g, g-f, f-e, chromatic: minor third, half tone, half-tone eg. d-b, b-b flat, b flat-a, enharmonic: major-third, quarter-tone, quarter-tone. Made up of four, interlinked tetrachords, plus one pitch. Depending on what tetrachords are used, the scales for melodies can be defined by their "tonus" Pitch in middle of tonus is called the "mese" and melodies should always return to this (like a tonic . ) No music (not even fragments) from this era.
