Classical Greek Theories

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

Music had “magical powers”
Important in the education of aristocratic Greek children
Improper use of music invites evil into our lives

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

Music “Imitated the passions of the soul” and arroused those passions (emotions) in the listener.

Question 3

Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology

Answer 3

Universe is made of system of concentric spheres around earth
Each circle contains a siren

Question 4

Numbers and Musical Intervals

Answer 4

Universe governed by music, the sounding number
Octave = ratio of 2:1
Fifth = ration 5:2
Fourth = ratio 4:3
Major Second = ratio 9:8

Question 5

Monochord

Answer 5

One stringed instrument used to establish ratios

Question 6

Trivium

Answer 6

Grammar, dialectic, and rhetoric

Question 7

Quadrivium

Answer 7

Geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music