Middle Ages Flashcards
ancient world
3500 BCE- 500
1100 BCE
The Trojan War pitted Greeks against Turks
800-461 BCE
rise of the great greek city states
776 BCE
first olympic games
497 BCE
mathemetician and music theorist, pythagoras died
390 BCE
plato penned the republic
350 BCE
Aristotle wrote Politics
320 BCE
Aristoxenus wrote his book on harmonic elements
356 BCE
Alexander III of Macedon was born
331-323 BCE
Alexander the Great conducted his war of conquest
Greek Culture/ Music
Greek Culture was humanistic, a sonic manifestation of the order and rightness of the cosmos, fascinated by impact of music on human beings, basic to activities connected with the pursuit of truth or beauty
Doctrine of Ethos
the moral quality of music and the effect of music on people and nature
based on pythagoras’ view of music as a microcosm of the cosmos, a system of pitch and rhythm that was ruled by math that governs universe