07:700:301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aristoxenus, Perfect Fourth, Cleonides
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Musica mundana- all of the planets, space and the universe worked together and were entangled in music. Harmony of the spheres (a. v. 2) musica humana- the way the body was in harmony with itself. Thought to be one of the four mathematical science (a. vi. 2) melos- music as a practical art, sounding phenomenon (melody) (a. vi. 2. a) seen as closely related to poetry (a. vi. 3) Ethos- music"s effect on your mood and dispositions (ethics) a. vii) greek music theory (a. vii. 1) key writers: pythagoras (math and astronomy), Quintilianus (rhetoric), aristoxenus, cleonides, ptolemy (a. vii. 2) greater and lesser perfect systems, based on series of tetrachords (a. vii. 2. a) tetrachord- 4 notes spanning a perfect fourth. Three genera of tetrachord (a. vii. 2. a. i) diatonic- root, tone, tone, Semitone/semitone, tone, tone/tone, semitone, tone. (a. vii. 2. a. ii) chromatic- root, minor third, semitone, (a. vii. 2. a. iii) semitone, Species of fourths, fifths, and octaves (a. vii. 3) (a. vii. 4) consonant rations, by legend discovered by pythagoras (a. vii. 4. a) octave, 2:1 (a. vii. 4. b) fifth, 3:2 (a. vii. 4. c)
