August 31st Lecture Flashcards
(31 cards)
Muse
- Greek term
- served to inspire artists and musicians
- evolved to word “music”
2 cults and their gods
- Apollo
- Dionysus
2 gods and their corresponding instruments
- Apollo & lyre
- Dionysus & aulos
3 theories as to why music exists
- communication
- dance and rhythm used in labor
- emotional expression
Ways we know of early music history
- pictorial: caves, vases
- literary: both oral and written tradition
- instruments found in archaeological digs
- ethnomusicology: study of music in certain areas/cultures
Aulos
Recorder like instrument
Phorbeia
Strap to hold 2 aulos in place
Salpinx
Brass instrument shaped like a tube
Keras
Rounded brass instruments
Brass instruments were used for
Calling
Tympanon
2 headed drum
Kymnala
Symbal
Krotola
Clapper
Hydraulos
Small organ like instrument ran w water
Kroupolon
Put on foot-wooden clapper to keep tempo
Pythagoras’ discoveries
- observed perfect intervals
- observed dissonance in augmented 4th
- octave consisted of double proportion
- octave is 4 & 5 added
- 5th = 3:2
- 4th = 4:3
- aug 4th = 9:8
Ptolemy’s ideas on the nature of music
- music of the spheres
- vibrations in the air
- vibrations in everything
Plato
-melos:union of poetry and music
Doctrine of Ethos
Music posses a moral quality and could affect character and behavior
Aristotle Politics Theory of Imitation
Mimetic poetry uses language, rhythm, and harmony to create a representation of objects and events in the world
Music is a form of ___________ thus pieces of music are images of _______
Imitation, character
Rhythm and melody supply imitations of
Emotions and states of being
Melodies imitate _________ as each mode creates ______________
Character, differing responses from each person
Plato “Republic”
Behavior is related to music and can change based on mode, melody, rhythm, etc
