Presentation 1 Flashcards
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Golden Proportion: Fifth
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Golden Proportion: Fourth
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Golden Proportion: Octave
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Much of Western society hinges on what the ancient Greek philosophers wrote about music, including…(List in order)
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Platonic philosophy
(that which is connected with Plato) is not concerned with the technical aspects of music as much as how it affects our souls (psyches).
The names of the modes are taken from the Greek tribes that used them:
Dorian, Phrygian, Myxolydian, and Lydian.
What two groups are the Seven Liberal Arts categorized?
Trivium and the Quadrivium.
What THREE subjects are in Trivium
Rhetoric, Logic, and Grammar
What FOUR subjects are in Quadrivium
Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music
What are the dates of the scholar/mathematician Boethius?
(480-524 CE)
What three types did Boethius classify music?
Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, Musica Instrumentalis
Music Mundana
the music of the spheres & universe (ancients thought that when all was right, all the planets revolved in a way that created divine music & divine harmony)
Musica Humana
the music of the human body (like the music of the universe, except on a smaller scale, the human body as a divine mechanism, perfectly constructed in divine harmony)
Music Instrumentalis
music that can be heard and played aloud on instruments
What are Pythagorus dates?
ca. 500 BCE
Please list the three intervals discovered by a Greek mathematician and philosopher, please state the name and circumstances under which he discovered them
He discovered them as he was walking, he heard a blacksmith hammering and he heard a pitch. He classified these pitches into what is called the Golden Proportion
List the three major Greek philosophers includeing what two of them pass down about music in Greek society
Socrates Plato and Aristotle - Plato believed that music was to be controlled and not listened to, too much. Those who listened often would be expected to have anarchy and violence. Aristotle believed it should be learned and to stop at that, as professional musicians were on the same level as prostitutes in Greek society
Discuss the start date of the Middle ages and what was happening politically and socially during this time.
Started in 410. Politically, The last Emperor Romulus Augustus is deposed by barbarians in 476 (due to inbreeding, he was a semi-retarded young boy)….
