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August 31st Lecture Flashcards

1
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Muse

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  • Greek term
  • served to inspire artists and musicians
  • evolved to word “music”
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2
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2 cults and their gods

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  • Apollo

- Dionysus

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3
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2 gods and their corresponding instruments

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  • Apollo & lyre

- Dionysus & aulos

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4
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3 theories as to why music exists

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  • communication
  • dance and rhythm used in labor
  • emotional expression
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5
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Ways we know of early music history

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  • pictorial: caves, vases
  • literary: both oral and written tradition
  • instruments found in archaeological digs
  • ethnomusicology: study of music in certain areas/cultures
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6
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Aulos

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Recorder like instrument

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7
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Phorbeia

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Strap to hold 2 aulos in place

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8
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Salpinx

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Brass instrument shaped like a tube

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9
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Keras

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Rounded brass instruments

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10
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Brass instruments were used for

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Calling

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11
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Tympanon

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2 headed drum

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12
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Kymnala

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Symbal

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13
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Krotola

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Clapper

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14
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Hydraulos

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Small organ like instrument ran w water

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15
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Kroupolon

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Put on foot-wooden clapper to keep tempo

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16
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Pythagoras’ discoveries

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  • 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
17
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Ptolemy’s ideas on the nature of music

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  • music of the spheres
  • vibrations in the air
  • vibrations in everything
18
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Plato

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-melos:union of poetry and music

19
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Doctrine of Ethos

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Music posses a moral quality and could affect character and behavior

20
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Aristotle Politics Theory of Imitation

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Mimetic poetry uses language, rhythm, and harmony to create a representation of objects and events in the world

21
Q

Music is a form of ___________ thus pieces of music are images of _______

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Imitation, character

22
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Rhythm and melody supply imitations of

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Emotions and states of being

23
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Melodies imitate _________ as each mode creates ______________

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Character, differing responses from each person

24
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Plato “Republic”

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Behavior is related to music and can change based on mode, melody, rhythm, etc

25
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Aristoxenus

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studied harmonic studies

26
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Harmonic

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Study of pitches

27
Q

Tetrachord

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4 notes spanning a P4

28
Q

Tetrachors genera

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Diatonic
Chromatic
Enharmonic

29
Q

Syllables sang by Greeks

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Tay-toh-teh-tah

Singing down Dorian

30
Q

Tonol (tonos)

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modes = region w emotions qualities

31
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rhythmic modes

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trochaic
Iambic
dactyl
anapest

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