Chapter 7: Music Of Ancient Greece Flashcards
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Plato and Aristotle
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Felt music had moral and ethical importance to young scholars and started including music education
2
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General uses of music
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- Entertainment at social gatherings
- Accompany outdoor athletic events
- Accompany recitation of poetry
- Accompany dramatic presentations
3
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Characteristics
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- monophonic
- 2 instruments: lyre and aulos
- comes from images off pottery
4
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Muses
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Goddesses of the Arts, 9 of them
5
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“Musical” person
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Well educated and rounded
6
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Greeks believed..
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Words and music formed the perfect union
7
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Doctrine of Ethos
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Concerned with ethical aspects of music
8
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Two beliefs
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- Music affected entire being
2. Had power to heal the sick and preform miracles
9
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2 important discoveries
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- Intervals- first octave the 5th and 4th
2. Modes- series of 7 note scales
10
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First Religious Cult
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- lead by Apollo
- played lyre
- preferred clam and orderly music
- developed into classical style
- music is restrained, emphasized form and balance
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Second Religious Cult
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- lead by Dionysus
- played aulos
- preferred dramatic and competitive music
- developed into romantic style
- style is emotional, dramatic, and concerned with expression
12
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Why there are very little artifacts of music…
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- Natural decay
- Learned by rote
- Mid evil, didn’t like Greece, destroyed all music
- People didn’t know how to read it, dif form of notation
- Improvised music
