Music 1711F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Pythian Games, Lorenzo Da Firenze, Roman De Fauvel
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Singing an instruments played throughout history religious rituals. No notated music has survived only written accounts. Western music derives from ancient greece and their ideologies. Greek dramas words, music and dance seen as inseparable musica . Iliad and odyssey were thought to be sung. Singing was a competitive event at pythian games. In honour of apollo god of music and healing. A descending succession of four notes spanning the interval of a fourth. A series of four interlocking tetrachords plus one additional note. Believed that modes could impact the mind of a person. 117 ce rome took control of greece augustus reigned. Discovers pitch and ratios octave, fifth and fourth were focused on. Music is seen as more mathematical than artistic. Music is a fundamental law governing all physical bodies in the universe. Doctrine of ethos music is capable of triggering emotions. Was admired because it had the same capability to trigger emotions the same way vocal music does.
