Ancient Greece & Rome Flashcards
What are the most prominent musical textures in ancient Greek music?
Monophony & heterophony.
Ancient Greeks believed music had a special power to heal the body and mind?
Yes, they did.
Music was notated by the ancient Greek musicians, or were they reliant on improvisation and memorization?
Memorization and improvisation were common practices.
How did Greek philosophy view music’s role in shaping people’s ethos?
Plato and Aristotle, for example, thought that exposure to music affected a person’s character.
Did Pythagoras establish an association between music, math & cosmology?
Pythagoras’ theory deals with pitches, intervals, modes, scales, and mathematics.
Did Plato also consider music to be an entertaining activity?
Plato believed music had only an educational and aesthetic function in society.
Did ancient Greeks see perfect 4ths, perfect 5ths, and octaves as dissonances?
Rather, they saw them as consonances.
Melos, what does it mean?
Music is a form of performance art.
According to Greek mythology, music is created by gods and goddesses (muses)?
Yes, that is right.
Orpheus, Apollo, and Dyonisius were ancient Greek philosophers?
No, music-related deities.
Which instrument do you recognize: aulos, kithara, or lire?
Lire
Which instrument do you recognize: aulos, kithara, or lire?
Aulos
Which instrument do you recognize: aulos, kithara, or lire?
Kithara
Which functional role did music play in Rome?
Music accompanied military parades, labor, liturgical ceremonies, public and private events.
Take a listen to the “Epitaph of Seikilos” included in the class PowerPoint. How would you describe the texture? Is it homophonic or heterophonic?
Heterophonic
